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The discipline of being right even when being wrong would be easier.
means Strict, exacting thoroughness — the refusal to let sloppy reasoning or shortcuts pass for truth.
from From Latin 'rigor' meaning stiffness or hardness, from the verb 'rigere,' to be stiff or numb with cold — the same root that gives us 'rigid' and 'rigor mortis.' The leap from physical stiffness to intellectual strictness makes sense: a rigorous mind is an unbending one, refusing to soften or flex when the truth gets uncomfortable.
- not
- rigidity dressed up as virtue
- etymology
- from latin for stiffness, literally
- tell
- shows up in the footnotes, not the slogans
- cost
- slower conclusions, fewer embarrassing retractions