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.
Ec
"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"