Jargon
- dubitanda: Pepper's jargon for Common Sense
- data: Pepper's jargon for Multiplicative Corroboration, which simply refers to repeated empirical observation. If two people read a thermometer and agree on the reading, there has been Multiplicative Corroboration. In layman's terms, we call this data.
- danda: Pepper's jargon for Structural Corroboration, which in layman's terms is similar to Logical Data.
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—Daniel J. Boorstin (b. 1914)
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—David Lehman (b. 1948)