Unfortunately in most cases, the status of a truth that's non-verifiable, is known as "hearsay".
It's customary in most decisions, whether it be "evidence based research" in science, through to the courts, that a basis of evidence (that independent others can verify) is required, not just hearsay, and the more authoritative the better. Plausibility ("he/she sounds honest") seems to be a lesser standard. To that extent, BLP is mainstream in seeking evidence.
FT2
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 4:34 PM, Steve Summit scs@eskimo.com wrote:
Ken Arromdee wrote:
If our policy demands that someone corrects errors about themselves by getting the correct information published in a secondary source first, that policy is broken.
So I guess the question is, does "Verifiability, not Truth" apply to BLP?
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