In the words of the Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson, "It is not the function of government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error".
Language itself conspires toward this sort of asymmetry: we fall into error, but do not usually speak of falling into truth.
As the court of appeal tried to explain, "although the judge below fell into error, it does not affect what was in fact a just and proportionate sentence".
Spalding, who is not an archaeologist, believes that other Stonehenge theorists have fallen into error by looking down instead of up.
Suffice it to say that we regard the Solicitor General's approach to this difficult situation as unexceptionable; and it is hardly to be assumed that the District Court would not do its full duty or would fall into error.
Separately, attempts to validate published findings through various reproducibility projects should help to root out poorly conducted work and, at the same time, raise awareness among researchers about the steps needed to avoid falling into error.
"We say that the EAT fell into error when it concluded that it was necessary to establish a group disadvantage among Christians generally for the purposes of the indirect discrimination provisions.
But the judge said the "general thrust" of the observations that a just result could be achieved "does not strike me as unduly sanguine", and Mr Justice Bean had not fallen into error in adopting a similar approach.
They were answered that … it was Thursday, at which they were much amazed, for to us it was Wednesday, and we knew not how we had fallen into error.
