Stubborn or Just Don't Care?

[Exhibitman]

I got one yesterday and fixed the listing. I'd misidentified a Springfield rifle as a Sharp's rifle in a cabinet photo.

Assuming the seller is honest, refusing to take a correction amounts to one thing: ego. "I know, you don't". I try to be as humble as I can be when it comes to this stuff; I do not see how else to be an honest researcher and writer unless I acknowledge that what I know is far smaller than the total sum of the facts.

Total aside on this concept: I took an appellate process class in law school that was taught by a retired CA Supreme Court justice, Raymond Sullivan. Amazing class. Kicked my ass. Justice Sullivan had an astounding memory and he'd been involved in many of the opinions we were studying. One time after class, a student asked him a challenging question about a case we'd gone over. Sullivan's response was "I discussed that exact issue with Chief Justice Traynor when he assigned me to write the opinion and we decided it was incorrect." Total mic drop moment. Sometimes you do know it all.