Wiki Wars cont

I had made the comment below, on Sachin’s blog earlier.  I have found the Callinan J judgment referred to in; Woods v Multi-Sport Holdings (2002).  Check his beautiful ramblings at [165] where he questions whether there is a true history at all in a postmodernist world.

 

 

I read with cajolery, (my word for the day) your comments about ‘Wiki Wars’ and wonder about the integrity of the content of any Wiki.  My thoughts continue to perplex into a philosophical quandary.  I commented in an earlier blog: Blogging, who do we think we are? , about the indelible stain of questionable credibility that attaches itself to any internet ‘publication’.  However now I wonder more spatially if we can ever be certain of any truth.  For example we know from our own understanding of law that courts need to deal with two forms of facts:  facts which must be formally proved, and other background knowledge that the judge can take judicial notice of as fact (which need  need not be proven). The law actualises that ‘truth’ is usually, merely someones version of the truth.  History similarly, is someones version of facts, (I think Callinan J said something like this in a judgment.  I will try to find it and post it).  In a pluralistic society perhaps we really do need to accept that there is never one truth and just maybe a freely accessible Wiki – accessible to the masses to be edited in an unrestrained manner, is the very tool that can best arrive at a pluralistic truth.