Critical terminology is context-sensitive. Deliberate fabrication, error, poor retention, misreading and mistaken attribution have different implications. Where the text itself denies deliberate lying, it is inaccurate to label the transmitter a willful forger on that wording alone.
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Narrator Criticism, Integrity and Precision: Standards of Scholarly Appraisal
Critical terminology is context-sensitive. Deliberate fabrication, error, poor retention, misreading and mistaken attribution have different implications. Where the text itself denies deliberate lying, it is inaccurate to label the transmitter a willful forger on that wording alone.