[Foundation-l] Verifiability: Constitution? Question for Jimbo!

[Walter van Kalken]

Ray Saintonge wrote:

>Walter van Kalken wrote:
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>>Dear Jimbo:
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>>I challenge you to find me a reference/citation for:
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>>''When walking on the major street towards increasing soi numbers, all 
>>the even-numbered sois are on the right side and the odd-numbered ones 
>>on the left side of the street. If for instance a new soi is added 
>>between soi 7 and soi 9 it will get the number soi 7/1, the next one soi 
>>7/2 etc. It is also possible that soi 20 is far away from soi 21 if 
>>there are more sois on one side of the street than on the other.''
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>>From the article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soi
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>>Not everything can be referenced, or a reference is almost impossible to 
>>provide. But what stands there is the truth, so should we delete this 
>>just because it is unreferenced?
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>In theory, there is probably a reference and legal basis for this kind 
>of thing in Bangkok city hall, but unless we are challenging the way 
>that the Bangkok city fathers are numbering streets it would be an 
>incredible waste of time to track it down.  I am willing, on a 
>provisional basis, to accept the observations of someone who has lived 
>in that city.  If I doubted the facts I could always go to Bangkok to 
>verify the facts by walking the streets.  The information is right there 
>for everybody to see.
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Thank you EC that is exactly how I feel about this and these kind of 
things. Unfortunately the tendency seems to be to rigouresly edit out 
these kind of unverified statements. At least that is the impression I 
get from statements like the one Jimbo made.

Waerth