David Rose Positively Judging 'Being Wrong'

David Rose wrote to sysfling on 31 March 2015 at 23:04:

There’s nothing wrong with being wrong. 

for the students 

David

Appraised	Appraisal
	Polarity	Attitude
being wrong	positive	judgement: propriety

Blogger Comment:

[1] Some might say this summarises Rose's attitude to theory.  Evidence here.

Philosopher José Ortega y Gasset wrote in his 1930 book The Revolt of the Masses:

The Fascist and Syndicalist species were characterised by the first appearance of a type of man who "did not care to give reasons or even to be right", but who was simply resolved to impose his opinions. That was the novelty: the right not to be right, not to be reasonable: "the reason of unreason."

[2] As the character Les says in Rob Brydon & Julia Davis's Human Remains episode More Than Happy:

'You can only fail.'