On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 11:52 AM, Peter Damian <[email protected]> wrote: > Against reliable sources (any elementary logic textbook will do) will tell > you that article is very wrong. So it is not verifiable.
Ah, but that's not what "verifiable" means according to Wikipedia:Verifiability. According to that page, "verifiable" means "whether readers can check that [the] material [...] has already been published by a reliable source". So the article can be very wrong, and still be "verifiable". I think you're assuming that "verifiable", as used in Wikipedia:Verifiability, means the same as "verifiably true", as used by philosophers. But it clearly doesn't. As used in Wikipedia:Verifiability, "verifiable" means, essentially, "published by a reliable source". That's why the mantra is "verifiability, not truth", and not "verifiability, not just truth". _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
