On Wed, 30 Sep 2009, FT2 wrote:
> Verifiability not truth is probably one of the most poorly understood
> expressions on the wiki.
>
> It roughly means that we document what can be factually checked, in
> preference to what we "believe".
Unfortunately, "roughly" isn't "precisely".
This argument started with a verifiable-but-false claim which was factually
checked, but where we're not allowed to use the result of the fact-checking
(since it was a primary source and secondary sources take preference).
The covered bridge example was also one ("I fact-checked the source by looking
at the bridge. The source was wrong." is not acceptable.)
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