On Sep 18, 2006, at 8:52 PM, Daniel P. B. Smith wrote:
From: Phil Sandifer Snowspinner@gmail.com
On Sep 18, 2006, at 10:00 AM, Carl Peterson wrote:
Perhaps the slogan should be "verified truth" or "verifiable truth." This puts them both on an equal plane and requires both.
I was thinking of something like "truth is ensured by verifiability," actually.
-Phil
Verifiable sources do not ensure truth. (It's not clear to me that there's any way to ensure truth... you know, observer A says it's a wave, observer B says it's a particle... blind men... elephant... etc.)
Which, when you're invested in NPOV, is truth, since our goal, at least on subjects where there's dispute, is not to say "It's an elephant" but rather "This is what seven people say about it."
-Phil