Be careful, Dear Ms. Pat.  A tombstone is "hearsay" in its MOST classical and elegant form.  That does NOT mean that it is in error as to what it relates.  It only means that we must compare it to other sources before we believe it.  I teach my students to stay away from that term - hearsay - as well as such as "secondary", "circumstantial", "preponderance", etc., etc.  There is no place in research or in writing that we are called upon to state other than whether or not some evidence is reliable, unreliable or somewhere in between.

All should - maybe must - remember that we do not label evidence as unreliable because it is hearsay, we label it hearsay because it is unreliable.  Subtle and inconsequential differences, you say?  Hardly !

Paul
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Thanks everyone. That gives me something to aim for. I'll just avoid the
copies of copies of hearsay from those who didn't seem to bother to find out
if they were giving out correct data.

Pat in Montana



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