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[Anthony]

On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 9:40 AM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2009/4/22 Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org>:
> > On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 5:05 PM, <WJhonson at aol.com> wrote:
>
> >> Right, Wrong, True, False, White, Black, and so on do not exist.  They
> >> don't.  No existence.  They aren't there.  Nowhere.  Ok ...
>
> > Is that why the standard for Wikipedia is verifiability, and not truth?
>
> A statement of objective truth concerning subjective matters is beyond
> the capacity of mere humans. Verifiability from reasonably reliable
> sources is the closest approximation we can muster, in the quest for a
> neutral overview of the view of a given topic from 20,000 feet.


Wikiversity should have a course on this.  The more Wikipedians you can
convince of this line of thinking, the greater the chance of reaching your
goals.