--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote: > > 'Rectification', when applied to any situation, hypothesis, calculation, or theory is an indication that something is wrong, that some piece of information or knowledge is missing from the system under consideration, because the expected result did not appear. In science this usually means going back to the 'drawing board' and starting over since the idea was dis-confirmed. Rectification is the attempt to fudge the result in some way in order to maintain that the original idea is correct, but unless very carefully done with due diligence to the entire edifice, it typically is an act of intellectual dishonestly. Science generally proceeds this way - the idea is wrong, doesn't work right, so another is tried until a good stable theory is worked out. In spiritual matters it usually means cognitive dissonance is a work in an attempt to make the original idea come off clean, when in fact it has not. Psychologically it is difficult to avoid this because we humans do not like to be wrong, even though we tend to be wrong a good part of the time.
Well said. I've never understood the near-pathological fear of admitting they were w...w...w...wrong some people seem to have. I mean, isn't saying that you've never been wrong another way of saying, "I've never learned anything"?
