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[[File:Weighting hierarchy.png|alt=Weighting hierarchy|thumb|Weighting hierarchy]] | '''You can't trust anything you read on the web as fact unless you fully understand the objectives of the source from which it comes.''' | ||
News is not a term in science. News in our society represents a source of authoratitative informations which does not disclose its own biases.[[File:Weighting hierarchy.png|alt=Weighting hierarchy|thumb|Weighting hierarchy]] | |||
In [[wikipedia:The_Library_of_Babel|Borges' The Library of Babel]], there is a thought experiment where all possible 410-page books of a certain format and character set are available to anyone. Essentially, within our own confines this represents all knowledge humans '''could''' possibly produce. This is analogous to the internet. | In [[wikipedia:The_Library_of_Babel|Borges' The Library of Babel]], there is a thought experiment where all possible 410-page books of a certain format and character set are available to anyone. Essentially, within our own confines this represents all knowledge humans '''could''' possibly produce. This is analogous to the internet. | ||
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You can't trust anything you read on the web as fact unless you fully understand the objectives of the source from which it comes.
News is not a term in science. News in our society represents a source of authoratitative informations which does not disclose its own biases.
In Borges' The Library of Babel, there is a thought experiment where all possible 410-page books of a certain format and character set are available to anyone. Essentially, within our own confines this represents all knowledge humans could possibly produce. This is analogous to the internet.