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|Description=Scientists, historians, and philosophers customarily speak of scientific errors. When doing so, they may be referring to error in an absolute sense as judged by the standards of our current knowledge. For example, the claim that the earth is stationary at the center of the universe is now regarded as an error . [[CiteRef::Allchin (2001)]] However, they may also be referring to some criterion of error related to the historical [[Epistemic Agent| agent]] at the time. It is therefore important to have a proper definition of the term, and the meaning intended.