Larry Sanger

At any rate, the basic idea of neutrality really needs to be distinguished from objectivity.

So actually, let's start there because a lot of people don't understand the distinction.

And I want to get this out clearly.

So...

Objectivity is a feature of persons, of minds, right?

So a person is objective.

And what that means is their approach to a problem or question is unemotional.

It's not driven by emotion.

prejudging the situation.

It is focused on evidence above all else, and especially it requires training, careful use of logic.

So all of these things are part of the virtue of objectivity.

It has nothing to do with neutrality as such.

So neutrality is not a feature of persons.

It's a feature of texts or of communication, generally speaking.

So we can say that teaching and journalism and reference works can be and I think should be neutral.

And what that means is when there is an area of disagreement

then the communication doesn't take a side, right?

The writing doesn't take a side.

Again, this is not talking about the authors of the article.

The author actually might think that one position is correct, but if the author writes something neutrally,