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Nope...
...that's not what I meant. The line from my post was a follow-up to the preceding sentence, meant to emphasize what I see as the fatal flaw in such "social constructivist" enterprises as Wikipedia. People can have whatever belief they wish about what is "true", but that belief doesn't change what is actually true.

And don't even get me started on "social constructivism"... happy

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