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title: 'Mistakes in the Texts'
date: '2014-05-11T11:01:19-04:00'
permalink: /mistakes-in-the-texts/
tags:
    - reading
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> Instead of trying to find mistakes in the texts, I suggest we take the point of view that our authors created these apparent “contradictions” in order to get readers like us to ponder more interesting questions.
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> [<cite>Michael S. Roth</cite>](http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/05/10/young-minds-in-critical-condition/)