Review of the book: Bokus Barbara – Kosowska Ewa (eds.), Truth and Falsehood in Science Arts (Warszawa: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego 2020). Pp. 299. ISBN 978-83-235-4220-9

We study an extension of the voter model in which each agent is endowed with an innate preference for one of two states that we term as “truth” or “falsehood”. Due to interactions with neighbors, an agent that innately prefers truth can be persuaded to adopt a false opinion (and thus be discordant with its innate preference) or the agent can possess an internally concordant “true” opinion. Para...

This article explains and defends a novel idea about how people can be misled by discussion topic, even if the itself does not explicitly involve making of false claims. The crucial aspect this is that are liable to infer, from fact particular topic being discussed, important. As result, they may then led accept certain beliefs state world consider necessary for topic’s importance. What calls “...

An acoustic-phonetic forensic-voice-comparison system extracted information from the formant trajectories of tokens of Standard Chinese /iau/. When this information was added to a generic automatic forensic-voice-comparison system, which did not itself exploit acoustic-phonetic information, there was a substantial improvement in system validity but a decline in system reliability.

We have extracted a ball from an urn which contains n− 1 black balls and one white ball. A witness to the drawing announces that the extracted ball is white; we demand the probability of this exit. If the number n is very great, that which renders extraordinary the exit of the white ball, the probability of the error or of the falsehood of the witness becomes quite near to certitude, that which...