Talk:Nixon diamond

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I'm not sure I should have changed the spelling of credolous to credulous. Here's why not and why I did it anyway:

1. "Credolous" isn't a word according to dictionary.com. The word is normally spelled as "credulous".

2. But when I Google "credolous", I get several logic papers like this one, along with "credolous" in other contexts where it's simply a mistake. So it could be argued that "credolous" is the correct spelling of a technical logic term.

3. But one such logic paper was this: "A General Modal Framework for the Event Calculus and its Skeptical and Credulous Variants", 1996. "Credolous" appears in the body but not the title. So, it could be that other papers copied this spelling, thinking it was an intentional new word instead of a mistake.

4. Anyway, both "credolous" and "credulous" are the opposite of "skeptical", so it would be a lot simpler to spell "credulous" the same way all the time. Art LaPella 21:12, July 27, 2005 (UTC)

"Credolous" is not a technical term, just a mistake (that has also been done in several published papers, apparently). Using "credulous" everywhere is the right choice.Paolo Liberatore 16:11, 30 July 2005 (UTC)
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