Mistakes are at the very base of human thought, embedded there, feeding the structure like root nodules. If we were not provided with theknack for being wrong, we could never get anything useful done. We think our way along by choosing between right and wrongalternatives, and the wrong choices have to be made as often as the right ones. We get along in life this way.
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