Perhaps the prevalence of pedantry may be largely accounted for by the common error of thinking that because useful knowledge should be remembered any kind of knowledge that is at all worth learning should be remembered too.
Every job leaves its residue a bit of extra knowledge a new skill-set.
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The foundation of our religion is a basis of fact – the fact of the birth ministry miracles death resurrection by the Evangelists as having actually occurred within their own personal knowledge.