Quoting%20commentary for Niddah 6:14

הָרוֹאָה יוֹם אַחַד עָשָׂר בֵּין הַשְּׁמָשׁוֹת, תְּחִלַּת נִדָּה וְסוֹף נִדָּה, תְּחִלַּת זִיבָה וְסוֹף זִיבָה, יוֹם אַרְבָּעִים לַזָּכָר וְיוֹם שְׁמוֹנִים לַנְּקֵבָה, בֵּין הַשְּׁמָשׁוֹת לְכֻלָּן, הֲרֵי אֵלּוּ טוֹעוֹת. אָמַר רַבִּי יְהוֹשֻׁעַ, עַד שֶׁאַתֶּם מְתַקְּנִים אֶת הַשּׁוֹטוֹת, תַּקְּנוּ אֶת הַפִּקְחוֹת:

Regarding a woman who saw [a discharge of blood] on the eleventh day [i.e. her last day of counting, after which she should be pure] at twilight, or at the beginning of her being a <i>niddah</i> [a woman who has menstrual discharges which render her impure] and at the end of her being a <i>niddah</i> or at the beginning of the [subsequent] period of [potential] genital discharge and the end of that period of discharge [i.e. at twilight on what is either the first day of her being a <i>niddah</i> or the last day of the subsequent period of discharge during which she counts seven clean days, or at twilight on what is either the last day of her being a <i>niddah</i> or the first day of the subsequent period of potential discharge], or [if she saw blood] at the end of the fortieth day [after the birth] of a male, or at the end of the eightieth day [after the birth] of a female, at twilight in all these cases, they are thereby [assumed to be] mistaken [in their counting, and must therefore treat each case stringently]. Rabbi Yehoshua said: now that you have remedied [the situation for] the foolish women [who have mistaken their count], remedy [the situation for] the intelligent ones [who know how to count, as well, since they too may err in their counting].

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