What in normal times seemed like a small, ordinary mistake — forgetting to take a child to a doctor's appointment, bringing him to school late, getting drunk in his presence — could, in the wake of a death, seem like a portent of danger.
But when an email meant for Rachel accidentally went to Ruben, it wasn't long before an ordinary mistake began to look like an extraordinary stroke of luck.
Steps to discourage risks of the kind taken by Enron might seem entirely warranted indeed, you might argue, that was the whole point of the law but many of the statute's critics say that in threatening (as they see it) to criminalise ordinary business mistakes it goes too far.
If daytime is ideal then veridical star-perceptions will thereby be ruled out; if the nighttime is ideal then all representations caused by skinny cows at night will thereby represent skinny cows, and ordinary perceptual mistakes will be ruled out.
The film sees Emmet Brickowski Chris Prattt), an ordinary blockhead, mistaken for a "master builder", an anarchic construction expert capable of working at great speed on any design in the Lego universe, even the ones that need adult supervision.
Such accounts are meant to show that, although the ordinary beliefs are mistaken, the mistakes can be explained or excused.
I've also recently discovered a program that is almost as charmingly restful: a gardening show for people without wildflower meadows and ornamental stonework, for those who simply enjoy watching ordinary citizens make mistakes, nurse wild ambitions, and ultimately, to an extent, succeed.
But CERN physicists have concluded that they may have mistaken ordinary particles for the Higgs.
One might think our confused representation of space represents space as a kind of independent entity, and not as a relational order, since for Leibniz, the ordinary conception is mistaken in its portrayal of space as a kind of quasi-entity.
