Listening (for what is not said)

P-value: What is and what is not

The misinterpretation and misuse of p-value have been increasing for decades. In March 2016, the American Statistical Association released a statement to warn about the use and interpretation of p-value. In this study, we provided a definition and discussion of p-value and emphasized the importance of its accurate interpretation.    

What is wrong with what is said?

The scientific flaws in medical research, especially as they relate to randomized controlled trials are rather uniform and the common denominator of such flaws is the attempt to prove, rather than falsify, the study hypothesis. This interactive educational exercise is an attempt to highlight these flaws in short scenarios.

Truth and What Is Said

A notion of truth as applicable to events of fact-stating use (utterances) of a sentence type is arguably presupposed and required by our evaluative practices of the use of language. The truth of an utterance clearly depends on what the utterance says. This fundamental dependence seems to be captured by the schema that if an utterance u says that P , then u is true iff P . Such a schema may thu...

health communication what it is and what is not

Relativism, Vagueness and What is Said

In a series of recent papers, John MacFarlane (2003, 2005a, 2005b) has formulated a version of truth-relativism, and argued for its application in some cases—future contingents, knowledge attributions and epistemic modals among them. Mark Richard (2004) also defends a version of relativism, which he applies to vagueness-inducing features of the semantics of gradable adjectives; Richard thinks t...