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>> Sure. But if you read something in a book, there is a high probability
>> that it has some basis in fact.
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> Depends on the book, I think.
Why yes, yes it does. When I was at uni, we did an entire 3-hour lecture
session on this very question.
Unfortunately, *I* was doing a computing degree, where almost anything
in any published book is out of date a very long time before the book
has even been printed. But I guess if you were doing a history degree,
that session might have been useful.
Of course, hypothetically you can apply the same analysis to online
material, but... honestly? Take a wild guess.
Anyway, I said *probability*, not certainty. ;-)
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