Never mind that this was a terrible mistake of memory, that he was a faithful, law-observing, Shema-proclaiming Jew to the end, and that, John's words notwithstanding, the only ones to receive Jesus in his lifetime were Jews.
I was beginning to suspect that this was not about a simple mistake, a commonplace failure of memory in a busy, important older man.
"He tried to pass these inaccuracies off as mere lapses of memory and mistakes," Judge Duffy wrote.
Recent history has been brutal for Japanese chip makers, and Renesas — formed from the struggling chip divisions of its major shareholding companies, Hitachi, Mitsubishi Electric and NEC — will be trying not to repeat mistakes of the bankrupt Elpida Memory.
Ever since the nightly news anchor apologised on Wednesday for what he said was a "terrible mistake" due to the "fog of memory over 12 years", more details have emerged about Mr Williams's progressively more exaggerated claims.
We are also guilty of committing such mistakes as memory fades and our wishes begin to color our memories with shades missing at the time.
This mistake has led to substantial interpretation errors in a variety of memory experiments (e.g., Dougal & Rotello, 2007; Evans, Rotello, Li, & Rayner, 2009; Verde & Rotello, 2003).
Luckily, the many mistakes I made as a young man have faded into the recesses of memory, relived only at the occasional college reunion.
Lapses are failures of memory and often occur as a result of distractions or interruptions, whereas mistakes are caused by inappropriate clinical reasoning and failures in planning or problem solving [ 10].
Many Buddhists take something close to this position: they regard our entire sense of self as a product of mistaking memories, thoughts, or emotions for something more than fleeting sensations.
