Dubious Facts by Olberding Garret P. S

Author:Olberding, Garret P. S. [Olberding]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781438443911
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2012-11-25T16:00:00+00:00

RUMOR AND NATURAL SIGNS AS INFORMATION

If error is not commonly characterized as a stark error in perception, the issue is less perception than what is deemed most salient in its representation.17 Such a hypothesis would seem to be supported by various applications of not only wu 誤 to discussions of court affairs but also other terms such as e 訛, generally translatable as “rumor.” In the Han histories, at first glance the term appears to denote a kind of false representation. In the following example, a young girl comes to the capital to report that a great flood was approaching the capital, terrifying the government clerks. The emperor blames this reputedly “false rumor” on the mistreatment of the common people by the local government officials:

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