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Examples
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This “burden of proof” premise leads him to overcredit like-minded modelling “climate experts,” and discredit critics like Crichton and Lindzen.
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It was so easy to overcredit others: so impossible to write down their motives to the level of our own uncharitable truth.
Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003
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Their variety was indeed admirable, but apart from that they shocked me not a little, for I could not but see that as ready a way as any of discrediting true religion is to overcredit it; and that, where people believe in a miracle, to give them a glib hundred is to tempt them to infidelity.
The Fool Errant Maurice Hewlett 1892
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