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	WHO SAYS WE KNOW

wildcat

5-5-2007 9:00 AM

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knowledge, internet, larry sanger, wikipedia, philosophy

wildcat says:

ON THE NEW POLITICS OF KNOWLEDGE, an important essay By Larry Sanger

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/0a9bf0f9-0fdc-4ca3-baec-75a40e8f18cb/2028B9D6-D5EF-4B74-A213-7457A0E3CA7F/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.boingboing.net/2007/04/19/larry_sanger_on_the_.html" href="http://www.boingboing.net/2007/04/19/larry_sanger_on_the_.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.boingboing.net</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.boingboing.net/2007/04/19/larry_sanger_on_the_.html"><FONT size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">There
              are a lot of things that "everybody knows."  Everybody
              knows that Everest is the tallest mountain on Earth, that 2+2=4, that
              most people have two eyes—and a lot of other things.  If
              I were to go on, it would get tedious very fast, because, after all,
              these <EM>are</EM> things that everybody knows.</FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.boingboing.net/2007/04/19/larry_sanger_on_the_.html"><FONT size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">But there are also a lot of <EM>other</EM> things
              that "everybody
              knows," except that <EM>not</EM> everybody agrees that everybody
              knows them.  For example, everybody knows not only that there
              has been significant global warming recently, but also that human beings
              caused this by burning fossil fuels.  We know that evolution is
              as solidly proven as most of the rest of science, and that intelligent
              design isn't science at all; that Iraq never had any weapons
              of mass destruction (after they destroyed them);  and that the U.S.
              government had nothing to do with the destruction of the World Trade
              Center.  Except
              that, for each of these things "we all know," significant
              minorities insist that they're false.</FONT></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/2028B9D6-D5EF-4B74-A213-7457A0E3CA7F/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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