Truth (another article we have fought to the death over) does sometimes relate to consensus other times not, often most folks can be wrong about something. It is seldom different for each person, individuals, athough they exist, are rare; rather it is different for social groups similarly situated, for example, the most enlighted wealthy people firmly believe in private property, and not just as an afterthought.
Fred
From: "Ruimu" ruimu@uestc.edu.cn Reply-To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 00:33:24 +0800 To: "English Wikipedia" wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Re: The integrity of Wikipedia
Theresa : Every person has their own version of "truth".
Well, I don't know what exactly is "truth", I don't know if it covers much more than "2+2=4", but I'm sure that it's not helping much to say it would be different for each person. By definition, it's supposed to be shared by everybody. Am I mistaking?
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