The Facts Are Incomplete

Facts on fats: what are the implications?

We are delighted to see a cross-discipline review article by Chong, Sinclair and Guymer appearing in this issue of CEO (‘Facts on fat’, pp. 464–471). As the authors anticipate, this review provides valuable information to readers of the Journal, who are mostly ophthalmologists. We also believe that this cross-discipline review article will enable readers to better understand the roles of dietar...

Are there Irreducibly Relational Facts?

If the former is the case, let us say that anti-reductionism about relational facts is true; if the latter, that reductionism about relational facts is true. Let us say that a fact is relational if it makes true some relational proposition (a proposition that asserts that a relation holds between some objects1), that it is irreducibly relational if, in addition, it does not make true any nonrel...

Reducing gun violence: facts are stubborn things.

Assuming Facts Are Expressed More Than Once

Distant supervision (DS) is a method for training sentence-level information extraction models using only an unlabeled corpus and a knowledge base (KB). Fundamental to many DS approaches is the assumption that KB facts are expressed at least once (EALO) in the text corpus. Often, however, KB facts are actually expressed in the corpus many times, in which cases EALO-based systems underuse the av...

Mechanism of action of strontium ranelate: what are the facts?