Statements of Fact, Statements of Opinion, and the First Amendment

Truthfulness Analysis of Fact Statements Using the Web

Web users increasingly treat the Web as a very large knowledge base and use it to acquire all kinds of knowledge. In this article, we introduce a method that leverages the information on the Web to determine the truthfulness of any statement that attempts to state a fact. This method accomplishes the goal by checking whether there is an alternative statement that is more likely to be truthful. ...

Statements on the first of April 2006.

Verification of Fact Statements with Multiple Truthful Alternatives

When people are not sure about certain facts, they tend to use the Web to find the answers. Two problems make finding correct answers from the Web challenging. First, the Web contains a significant amount of untruthful information. Second, currently there is a lack of systems/tools that can verify the truthfulness or untruthfulness of a random fact statement and also provide alternative answers...

Reflections on the role of statements on statements in mathematics

Mathematicians reason about abstract objects, or at least they seem to do so. In the course of doing so, they routinely make statements on mathematical statements. In fact, every inference, such as “From equations (5.17) and (6.2) one obtains the following equation.”, is a statement on mathematical statements. Other examples of statements on mathematical statements are: “With the obvious modifi...

Quranic Statements

“The state of being plain” is one of the features of the Holy Quran, taken as indicative of Quran’s expressiveness and clearness regarding its intentions. However, one of the aspects of Quranic miracles is its expressive miracle based on which verses have been revealed according to suitability and appropriateness of situation in an explicit and succinct form. In order to have a desirable unders...