Or before Yudkowsky, Asimov's idea of "the relativity of wrong": https://chem.tufts.edu/answersinscience/relativityofwrong.htm https://chem.tufts.edu/answersin

Or before Yudkowsky, Asimov's idea of "the relativity of wrong": https://chem.tufts.edu/answersinscience/relativityofwrong.htm https://chem.tufts.edu/answersinscience/relativityofwrong.ht... "Naturally, the theories we now have might be considered wrong in the simplistic sense of my English Lit correspondent, but in a much truer and subtler sense, they need only be considered incomplete."