You don't have to verify that a belief is knowledge before it qualifies as knowledge. After all, if you did you'd get a regress. — Bartricks
If a random stranger with no expertise in medicine says that my mole is cancerous, and then another random strange with no expertise in medicine says that my mole is cancerous, have they verified each other? And do you think that, because they have both said the same thing, I now have good reason to think the mole is cancerous? — Bartricks
You're confusing verifiability with truth and justification. — Bartricks
And I am justified in thinking I just drank a beer because I seem to remember doing so, even if I cannot travel back in time and verify it. And so on. — Bartricks
Well, that's nice for you - but your random and unjustified assertions do not determine what's true in this area. Not unless you're an expert, that is (joke). — Bartricks
Does the random non-expert's cancer diagnosis verify the other random non-expert's cancer diagnosis? If not, why not? — Bartricks
You realize there's a consensus that verificationism is false? — Bartricks
Plus, I thought you didn't value what experts think - why are you suddenly into consensuses? — Bartricks
So, basically, long story short, a big bunch of no-nothings can create knowledge by writing a Wikipedia page, yes? — Bartricks
So, again, two no-nothings say the same thing and suddenly we have verification and knowledge, yes? Only, no, no, no. — Bartricks
Wikipedia is not an academically respectable source, as your institution should itself have told you. It is shot through with mistakes. Nothing on there is subject to proper peer review. — Bartricks
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Wikipedia is not peer reviewed... — Bartricks
For instance, consider something you know a lot about. Look up a wikipedia entry on that subject, whatever it may be. Then notice all the mistakes. — Bartricks
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