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“It is here that we encounter one of the most pervasive, virulent, and fictitious of the gremlins that inhabit the bowels of our ways of knowing. It is a vague and tenuous rule, but one that acts with tyranny toward anything that threatens it. Although it is not specifically formulated, we could say that it is a principle that goes something like this: If something »that obvious were wrong, »plenty of people would have noticed it and corrected it a long time ago. This is a fallacy.”