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Two numbers appear conspicuously in two different quotes. The numbers 18 and 21.

" The methods of increasing the degree of truth 18 in our beliefs are well known; they consist in hearing all sides, trying to ascertain all the relevant facts, controlling our own bias by discussion with people who have the opposite bias, and cultivating a readiness to discard any hypothesis which has proved inadequate."

"Teachers favourable to him would have been dismissed. He, meantime, would have captured the Government of some backward country, where it would have 21 become illegal to teach anything except his doctrine, which would have grown into a mysterious dogma not understood by anybody."

I assume these are in error. Perhaps page numbers that were included in copying and pasting the information.

Elfick (talk) 19:15, 9 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]