Manipulating Persuasion in Debates: Fact Checking’s Usefulness

Standards of Persuasion and the Distinction between Fact and Law

Public Debates and Reflective Equilibrium: How to Enhance the Usefulness of Public Debates as a Support for Political Decision-Making

CTE Centrum för tillämpad etik Linköpings Universitet 2 Abstract The objective for this study is to examine whether it is possible to use the method of reflective equilibrium in order to enhance the usefulness of public debates as a support for political decision-making. Since public debates from political quarters are seen as an important tool for policy-making, the need for a rational assessm...

The usefulness of dietary medium-chain triglycerides in body weight control: fact or fancy?

Compared to long-chain triglycerides (LCT), medium-chain triglycerides (MCT) display some specific physico-chemical, and biological characteristics. Thus, MCT are currently used in clinical nutrition as energy-yielding substrates, and have been advocated for three decades as a useful mean for body weight reduction. This review encompasses most aspects of MCT metabolism arguing this slimming hyp...

The usefulness of Vistech and FACT contrast sensitivity charts for cataract and refractive surgery outcomes research.

AIM To investigate the repeatability and sensitivity of two commonly used sine wave patch charts for contrast sensitivity (CS) measurement in cataract and refractive surgery outcomes. METHODS The Vistech CS chart and its descendant, the Functional Acuity Contrast Test (FACT), were administered in three experiments: (1) Post-LASIK and age matched normal subjects; (2) Preoperative cataract surg...

Detecting Type of Persuasion : Is there Structure in Persuasion Tactics?

Existing works on detecting persuasion in text make use of lexical features for detecting persuasive tactics, without taking advantage of the possible structures inherent in the tactics used. In this paper, we propose a multi-class classification, unsupervised domain-independent model for detecting the type of persuasion used in text, that makes use of the sentence structure inherent in the dif...