[WikiEN-l] Larry's text on the "Knowledge" article

Thu Apr 17 21:17:05 UTC 2003

NPOV as nothing to do with consensus. And philosophy has is place in an
encyclopedia.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rotem Dan" <rotem_dan at yahoo.com>
To: <wikien-l at wikipedia.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2003 11:08 PM
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Larry's text on the "Knowledge" article

> OK, ok you guys don't seem to get the point of my
> post. What I meant was that ANY philosophical text, is
> inappropriate for an ENCYCLOPEDIA, because it's
> obviously cannot become consensus, and will always
> remain merely a POV.
>
> It's like saying that by creating a wiki trying to
> "define" *what* is "art" , you will eventually (and
> ultimately) get to the point of consensus. that
> everyone will agree: "Yes, exactly, that is art".
> Great, all our problems solved, the wiki said Art is
> defined by X, Thought is Y and Knowledge is Z.
>
> Some things just shouldn't be written into a wiki.
>
> Rotem.
>
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