On 3/1/07, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
Steve Bennett wrote:
I do like the change. "Verifiability" was always terribly ambiguous and misleading. It never meant you had to verify the facts. It meant that if someone else wanted to verify them, they had a starting point.
Exactly. Nothing more, nothing less.
But it didn't really mean that either.
Why not?
"Attributability" is much cleaner.
It looks like some kind of semantic game. Capable of being attributed? It suggests that we don't need to make an attribution, only assert that it is possible. Actually attributed statements (or attributions) are then verifiable.
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"Verify" in the old sense meant patently false material was to be given equal weight with provable facts; this allowed for "obsolete and depracated" sources were abused to give '"equal weight"