RETHINKING PHILIP KITCHER’S SCIENCE POLICY IN TIMES OF A GLOBAL PANDEMIC by Merve Kaptan

“…The renowned British philosopher Philip Kitcher’s Science, Truth and Democracy is still relevant today, some twenty years after its first publication, as the heated debates concerning the role of science and its social consequences rages on. …”
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Indianisation et dépolitisation des victimes de la guerre au Pérou. L’exemple du mémorial L’Œil-qui-pleure by Dorothée Delacroix

“…It is the work of the artist Lika Mutal in coordination with various human rights activists and is a continuation of the work done by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (CVR in Spanish). …”
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KONSEP KEPEMIMPINAN MENURUT SYU’BAH ASA by Munadzir

“…Alquran has connected the concept of leadership to the guidance of the truth. A leader must know the situation and able to feel his follower misery directly. …”
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Modal Logic, Probability and Machine Learning Systems for Metadata Extraction by Simone Cuconato

“…The result is a well-motivated system of probabilistic modal logic, that defines a probability distribution over possible worlds of the truth value of metadata extracted from precision medicine approach to Alzheimer’s disease articles through machine learning systems.…”
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Who lies to protect another? Motivational, behavioral, and socio-cognitive predictors of children’s interventional deception by Płotnikowska Joanna, Filip Anna

“…Overall, children who gave false praise and who passed the hidden emotion task were more likely to deceive than those who told another individual an unpleasant truth and failed the emotion understanding task. …”
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Skepping en evolusie: 'n filosofiese besinning oor tyd, ruimte en materie by P. H. Stoker

“…Physical evolution requires theoretical explanations beyond the very limited observational data at our disposal and cannot be considered as revealed truth. Furthermore, naturalism is inherent in modern science and cannot explain the full richness of our experienced reality. …”
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Thesis-Building: Architecture, Alchemy and the Constructive Moment(s) of a Doctoral Dissertation by Willem de Bruijn

“…It asks how certain ‘moments’ in the building of a doctoral thesis – moments of conception, of discovery, of despair, of truth, of revelation and of jouissance – inform the building of a thesis. …”
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Le Flaubert de Charles Du Bos by Jacques Neefs

“…The connection between his essay “Sur le milieu intérieur chez Flaubert”, written in 1921, and extracts from his Journal, from 1923 to 1937, the comparisons with Gogol, Thomas Hardy, Tolstoy, Baudelaire, and Henry James that run through the writings of Du Bos, allow us to follow what he terms “the spiritual experience” of a materiality encompassed in the conquest of the triple demand of the Beautiful, the Living, the Truth. Du Bos detects the power of Flaubert’s work in the “disproportion” of his style, and the power of absorption that forms the density of his prose, showing an extraordinary process of conversion. …”
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Tonk, Syntax, Semantics, Pragmatics by Woleński Jan

“…This paper shows that if we assume the standard matrix (truth-tables) characterization of classical sentential functors, no valuation agrees with rules generating the sense of tonk. …”
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Berkeley’s Best System: An Alternative Approach to Laws of Nature by Walter Ott

“…Pace most commentators, I argue that Berkeley’s view is neither instrumentalist (since law statements have truth values and descriptive content) nor reductionist. …”
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Visibility and Memories-Building Processes among Afro-Descendants. El Afroargentino Case by Paola Carolina Monkevicius

“…Through the ethnographic analysis carried out, it is maintained that these subaltern conceptualizations call into question dominant knowledge, negotiating and disputing new forms of legitimacy and criteria of truth about the past, which enable uses and practices in conflict for the recognition of historically denied citizens' rights. …”
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Du baromètre au piolet, cent cinquante ans de visions britanniques de la montagne by Michel Tailland

“…Far from the romantic or lyrical views of Shelley or Ruskin, their writings or etchings are therefore loaded with truth and emotion. They slowly changed the Rousseau-like view which had prevailed since the end of the XVIIIth century. …”
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Virtual Joint Field Campaign: a framework of synthetic landscapes to assess multiscale measurement methods of water storage by T. Francke, C. Brogi, A. Duarte Rocha, M. Förster, M. Heistermann, M. Köhli, D. Rasche, M. Reich, P. Schattan, P. Schattan, L. Scheiffele, M. Schrön

“…</p> <p>In this study we suggest a synthetic virtual landscape that allows for an exact definition of all variables of interest and, consequently, constitutes the so-called “virtual truth” free of knowledge gaps. Such a landscape can be explored in various “virtual field campaigns” using “virtual sensors” that mimic the response and characteristics of actual devices. …”
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La Scuola Rinnovata de Giuseppina Pizzigoni entre droits de l’enfant et changement social by Sandra Chistolini

“…From the perspective of ethnomethodology, we discuss the validity of the experimental method for teaching according to nature, truth and experience for an inclusive and sustainable school characterised by processes of democratic socialisation.…”
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Pulmonary Atresia with Intact Ventricular Septum and Absence of Tricuspid Valve. A Report of Four Cases by Adel E. González Morejón, Ansia Serrano Sánchez, Giselle Serrano Ricardo

“…However, nothing could be further from the truth. Among the morphological peculiarities of this condition, the presence of congenitally unguarded tricuspid valve orifice is rarely observed. …”
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UNPACKING THE LEGACY OF MILITARY RULE: HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS IN NIGERIA (1985-2007) by OLUTAYO AYOBAMI AJAYI, OYEDOKUN MOJEED OYETUNJI

“…The research also assesses the efforts of successive democratic governments to address these violations, including truth-telling initiatives, judicial reforms and reparations. …”
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‘How the guineas shone as they came pouring out of the dark leather mouths!’: Shades of Gold in George Eliot’s Silas Marner (1861) by Marie-Laure Massei-Chamayou

“…At the end, the recovery of the stolen gold coins both leads to the emergence of the truth and works as a sign of divine reward for Silas’s spiritual progress. …”
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Wiara w Kościele, lecz dla świata. Rekonstrukcja interpretacji nauczania Vaticanum II by Andrzej Napiórkowski

“…For popes John XXIII and Paul VI it was not important to conform to the world, but to present and remind modern man – inclined to move away from God – the importance of Gospel’s Truth in all its purity. Therefore Vatican II defined firstly, the relationship between faith and modern teaching, secondly, established the relationship between the Church and the modern state, and finally, differently specified the relationship between Christian faith and religions in the world. …”
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Video Compression Schemes Using Edge Feature on Wireless Video Sensor Networks by Phat Nguyen Huu, Vinh Tran-Quang, Takumi Miyoshi

“…We conduct extensive computational simulations to examine the truth of our method and find that the proposed schemes not only balance energy consumption of sensor nodes by sharing of the processing tasks but also improve the quality of decoding video by using edges of objects in the frames.…”
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