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– Steven Kaas
I really don't see the point. All I'm getting out of this is: "knowing the truth is hard".
Plus the notion that in the current world when you know the truth with some satisfactory accuracy, most of the time you get to know it not firsthand but via a chain of people. Therefore it might be said that evaulating people's trustworthiness is in the same league of importance as interpreting and analysing data yet untouched by people.
Also, to nitpick, if you find a chain of people full of very trustworthy people, knowing the truth could be relatively easy.
What you said makes sense. It doesn't surprise me that I missed that interpretation of the quote, however. The concept of taking evidence from others' stated beliefs is better described by a network, not a single chain. Surely there are also different networks for each domain of claimed-knowledge.
I meant '"directly knowing the truth is hard"', as the quote intended. Still, mea culpa.