[WikiEN-l] Primary schools - notability
Philip Sandifer
snowspinner at gmail.com
Sat Mar 17 18:55:00 UTC 2007
On Mar 17, 2007, at 2:52 PM, Oldak Quill wrote:
>
> Notability is a human concept - "notability" doens't exist
> objectively, in the world. All of the things you list are
> intersubjectively notable, not inherently or integrally notable.
Exactly. Notability is determined by a set of standards that people
have adopted. Yes, virtually everybody accepts that Nobel laureates
are notable. But it's still notable because people want to read
articles about it.
Which is, in fact, "I like it." It's just that everybody likes Gandhi.
-Phil
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