Mark Wagner wrote:
On 9/18/06, Phil Sandifer
<Snowspinner(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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.
What is truth?
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Truth is inherently *subjective, not objective.
*To a Muslim, Jesus was just another one of God's prophets and Mohammad
was his final and greatest prophet; to a Christian Jesus was the only
son of God, the redeemer; to an atheist he is a myth that people like to
believe in. All of these views represent Truth to those who hold them.
If we allow Truth, we open the door to fanatics edit warring madly. And
it isn't just religion; it is everything from whether abortion is moral
to which musical artist was the greatest in their field to which episode
of SouthPark best highlights the political satire the series is known for.
Hence, "Verifiability, not truth". I can verify and state clearly, with
sources, different views from different groups, being careful to not
present the views in a biased fashion - per WP:NPOV#Undue weight - and
not presume to know Truth, because all I can ever know is my very
personal version of the Truth. The same is true for every human - you
may agree on some things, but you do not agree on the Truth about
everything with any one person.
One puppy's opinion.