Fred Bauder wrote:
But NPOV is a _social_ concept, as opposed to an _epistemological_ concept. What I mean is that NPOV is defend by the agreement of supporters and opponents of any particular thing.
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I should make clear here, for my own personal philosophical reasons, that I'm not at all a fan of any theory which defines truth or knowledge as somehow "socially constructed". I'm a believer in the correspondence theory of truth, the validity of the senses, the efficacy of reason, the methods of objectivity. What's true is true, and humans are capable of finding and knowing the truth.
That doesn't mean, though, that they can all agree on what is True, nor does it mean that a social process for collaborative writing can't justifiably rely on a socially-driven standard.
--Jimbo