"It is therefore disappointing when blatant errors about what I have done occur and persist. I mean literal errors—not disagreements about interpretation. In the case of the paper on identity, for example, a major result and its import were missed by the reviewer. I expected the error would be noticed and corrected, but after eleven years of expectation, during which the error had been carried along by others in the literature, I wrote to the reviewer, who then informed Church: “A grave and puzzling error in my review XII 95(4) of Miss Barcan has just come to my attention. It is ancient history, but still I’d feel relieved if you could see your way to publishing a signed correction.” A correction was published in JSL XXIII. Misreadings and neglect of some later work continued, but not uniformly. Some misreadings and omissions were corrected, some escalated into controversies, and some results were ignored. My keen disappointment was that my romantic notions about the self correcting feature of research within a scholarly community were not a given. There remain lengthy bibliographies and historical accounts of intensional and modal logic as well as interpretations of modalities where reference to my work is absent, but that is gradually being corrected." http://leiterreports.typepad.com/files/final_rbm-dewey-lecture.doc
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