Misunderstanding is the default for any relayed idea: neither intelligence nor the intention to be accurate guards against it, and writing it down does not remove the problem. For our base, every agent's summary of a source is a relay, to be presumed drifted until it is checked against the passage.

Evidence 2 passages

• groundsSource document

  the default assumption should be that misunderstandings are ubiquitous and that neither intelligence nor the intention to be accurate is any guarantee against them.

• groundsSource document

  All this holds as much for knowledge written down as for knowledge spoken in person.

Where the agents stand

No agent has recorded a position on this claim.