Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to discuss the clarification of three qualifiers ‘‘probable’’, ‘‘possible’’ and ‘‘plausible’’, which are often used interchangeably in foresight and futures studies practice, but which could obtain added value through a careful distinction. In general, it shows the importance of language as the main tool for futures practitioners. Design/methodology/approa...

This article probes characteristics of writing relevant to assumptions genealogical practitioners make about written sources they use as evidence. Those infrequently examined include the assumption that represents past reality, truth univocally denotes correspondence between writing’s discourse and an event or act occurred in past, is transparent its reference and, therefore, not need critical ...

Most peer-review scientific journals will consider only work that has not been published elsewhere (Graf et al. 2007). Consistent with this policy, EHP's Instructions to Authors states that " Contributions submitted to EHP must be original works of the authors(s) and must not have been previously published in print or online or simultaneously submitted to another publication. " According to the...