In this article, we argue for a pragmatic understanding of the role news media and journalism not as truth keepers but mediators in public sphere. current debate on ‘post-truth politics’ emphasis is often put formulation ethical guidelines legal solutions to regain control over ‘unbound journalism’ or re-establish media. Instead holding journalists individually accountable spread fake news, con...

studying human free will and option in both theoretical and practical aspects of human life has always been of vital importance. the reason why lies in the relation between one`s religious beliefs and practical life. with regard to the effect of free will as the base of human action, knowing the meaning and its essential agents has been necessary.  although most experts and scholars have been a...

the warrant of truth has long been drawing the attention of philosophers.in order to find out the truth value one should determine first the criterion of truth. discursive or representational knowledge are related to objects external of mind and so since external circumstances are involved in occurrence of this sort of knowledge, its truth value is diminished. presential knowledge, however, is ...

The tuning system of a keyboard instrument is chosen so that frequently used musical intervals sound as consonant as possible. Temperament refers to the compromise arising from the fact that not all intervals can be maximally consonant simultaneously. Recent work showed that it is possible to estimate temperament from audio recordings with no prior knowledge of the musical score, using a conser...

The concept of ground truth is a well-established principle in cartography, where data collected at a distance are confirmed by measurements made on location. Those local measurements are used to calibrate remote sensing devices, verify or correct experimental inferences, and update geographic databases. Ground truth observations also provide a means of training and supervising image classifica...