Seeking Truth in Changing Journalism: An Ambivalent Notion in Rede Globo

Rational action and truth-seeking

A note on the notion of truth in fuzzy

In fuzzy predicate logic, assignment of truth values may be partial, i.e. the truth value of a formula in an interpretation may be undeened (due to lack of some innnite suprema or innma in the underlying structure of truth values). A logic is supersound if each provable formula ' is true (has truth value 1) in each interpretation in which the truth value of ' is deened. If is shown that among t...

Online news and changing models of journalism

The move to Internet news publishing is the latest in a series of technological shifts which have required journalists not merely to adapt their daily practice but which have also – at least in the view of some – recast their role in society. For over a decade, proponents of the networked society as a new way of life have argued that responsibility for news selection and production will shift f...

Seeking truth using different methods

Mathematics and physics are entirely different subjects, both in their methodology and results. The differences are illustrated with how they view randomness, enumeration, and truth. In physics, randomness can be an unknown, an observational error, an unpredictable event, or a quantum mystery. In math it is just part of probability theory. Mathematics has subtle properties of infinities that ph...

Seeking truth on Monte Verita

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