Truth or Consequence

Truth Simpliciter and Logical Consequence

Truth-bearers or Truth-makers?

A Characterization of Consequence Operations Preserving Degrees of Truth

Formalization of reasoning which accepts rules of inference leading to conclusions whose logical values are not smaller than the logical value of the “weakest” premise leads to the concept of consequence operation preserving degrees of truth. Several examples of such consequence operation have already been considered (see e.g. [5]). In the present paper we give a general notion of the consequen...

Truth without consequence: reality and recall in refugees fleeing persecution.

Truth telling is one of the most fundamental tenets, not only of forensic psychiatry, but also of life in general. Within bioethics, deontological principles espouse truth telling, and in consequentialist approaches, truth telling is thought to foster respect and autonomy and ultimately to promote the greater social good. Paul Appelbaum writes of it as the first pillar of forensic ethics. Intui...

Truth or Urban Legend?

It has become widely accepted that correlations between variables measured with the same method, usually self-report surveys, are inflated due to the action of common method variance (CMV), despite a number of sources that suggest the problem is overstated. The author argues that the popular position suggesting CMV automatically affects variables measured with the same method is a distortion an...