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You are not the first person to think that an encyclopedia that anyone can edit is a flawed enterprise. If you have some diabolical scheme to demonstrate this, don't bother. We know. Really. Knowledge (XXG) only works in practice. In theory, it can never work. Such is the mystical nature of
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