Bug 522961
| Summary: | Improper Generalisation in English release notes | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Fedora Documentation | Reporter: | James Marshall Brannan <jmbrannan> |
| Component: | release-notes | Assignee: | A. Mani <a.mani.cms> |
| Status: | CLOSED NEXTRELEASE | QA Contact: | Karsten Wade <kwade> |
| Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | low | ||
| Version: | devel | CC: | a.mani.cms, eric, wb8rcr |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | All | ||
| URL: | http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f11/en-US/ | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2009-09-17 06:29:41 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Description
James Marshall Brannan
2009-09-12 18:21:22 UTC
Yes, it is possible to write bug free software. Software in interpreted languages like R do turn out to be bug free. Safety critical s/w can have a few LOC and still appear bug free. "Software bugs are common but not necessarily unavoidable" should be appropriate. It is not a 'logical fallacy'. (In reply to comment #2) > It is not a 'logical fallacy'. hasty generalization: "Making assumptions about a whole group or range of cases based on a sample that is inadequate" (from http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/handouts/fallacies.html). The statement is not a logical fallacy, if we see it from a 'ontology-free logic' point of view. It may or may not be a case of 'hasty generalisation' (it may be due to conditioning), but is definitely a form of improper generalisation. Whatever, the line should be rectified. The revision history points to Rudiger Landmann (In reply to comment #4) > The revision history points to Rudiger Landmann No, it doesn't: http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/docs/?p=docs/release-notes.git;a=commitdiff;h=a0146fb386c9c74ce12f5fb03fe6a7921b369c5c Anyway, fixed for F12 along the lines suggested by the reporter: http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/docs/?p=docs/release-notes.git;a=commitdiff;h=1963228844a3d7f78d2efc87f190003842bfaa3b Thanks for the catch, James! :) |