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Well, we understand each other then. Maybe you would be happy (or less unhappy?) to know that everywhere in my draft I had written "inaccurate until substantiated" instead of "accurate" before I edited it out.
The edit wasn't because I'm biased against statements that are not substantiated. But, really, I didn't think the extra precision was worth the cost in simplicity.
Well, since the accuracy of a statement doesn't causally depend on whether it's substantiated, so you can't flip the accuracy of a statement by finding substantiation, I don't see how that helps.
So "inaccurate until substantiated" isn't good enough either.
How about "inaccurate unless possibly substantiated"?
Or, "inaccurate unless possibly substantiated or just happens to be true but is unverifiable"?
Do you really love accuracy this much?