One way the error 4 matters, besides what I said preemptively, is that it means none of the cites in the paper can be trusted without checking them.
FWIW I generally take this to be the case; unless I have strong prior evidence that someone’s citations are consistently to a high standard, I don’t assume their citations can be easily trusted, at least not for important things.
I don’t think the preemptive stuff you said is too important because I think people make mistakes all the time and I was more interested in the fundamental arguments outlined and evaluating them for myself.
FWIW I generally take this to be the case; unless I have strong prior evidence that someone’s citations are consistently to a high standard, I don’t assume their citations can be easily trusted, at least not for important things.
FWIW I generally take this to be the case; unless I have strong prior evidence that someone’s citations are consistently to a high standard, I don’t assume their citations can be easily trusted, at least not for important things.
I don’t think the preemptive stuff you said is too important because I think people make mistakes all the time and I was more interested in the fundamental arguments outlined and evaluating them for myself.
Awesome. I think most people do not do that.