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		pc on Nov 18, 2007 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Paul Buchheit: We all have tunnel vision "I actually have no idea what "non-corroborative evidence for an idea" means." It's the opposite of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corroborating_evidence

tokipin on Nov 18, 2007 [–]

not to be technical, but i believe "non" means "absense of," not "inverse of." so for a given statement there's a lot of non-corroborating evidence that is irrelevant

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