Larry Sanger

But epistemology concerns the actual definitions of knowledge and justified belief and things like that, whereas methodology concerns the actual procedures that you go through and rules that you apply.

So it's a hard question.

You have to read a lot of different sources, for example.

Just reading the assigned text is generally not enough when you're talking about difficult, controversial geopolitical topics or topics in religion or whatever sort of...

whatever sort of thing you're trying to avoid bias about.

So, yeah.

So, obviously, it's important to find the best representatives of multiple sides, try to get a lot of different opinions, just random opinions is what I have tried to do.

And then you get your own notion of bias

the lay of the land.

And then it's simply a matter of going and systematically exploring.

Yeah.

And to get back to the point then about an encyclopedia article, a neutral encyclopedia article, does that work for you in advance?

That's sort of the beauty of neutrality.

That's why we actually appreciate and even appreciate

feel gratitude for toward a journalist that like takes something takes a topic that is normally just a matter of of you know acrimony and and they usually take one side whether explicitly or or you know implicitly but somebody who actually makes an attempt to as you say steel man both sides

is doing hard work, important work that people like to have in front of them.

Yeah, assuming that the encyclopedia source is reasonably neutral, or at least represents the field.

Because sometimes the entire field is biased, you know.

And you need to consider things that are considered fringe or whatever alternative if you want to have a truly...

broad idea of what's going on in a field.