I make a case to abandon the use of term “ground truth.” After brief history that indicates its military origins, two main arguments are presented against term. The first is from measurement theory. second by way presenting three examples: in crop mapping, which truth” may have some validity. This as exception prove rule. example looks at albedo, measurand same for local and remote measurements...

the basic aim of this research is description and deduction of principles, aims, and methods based on the epistemological foundations of farabi in fusus al-hikmah. to get this aim, the method was documentary analysis and deduction. findings show that: necessary being is aware of all contingent beings, there is a unity between the essence of god as a ultimate truth and his knowledge, necessary b...

This is a commentary on the article ‘The rise of post-truth populism in pluralist liberal democracies: challenges for health policy.’ It critically examines two of its key concepts: populism and ‘post truth.’ This commentary argues that there are different types of populism, with unclear links to impacts, and that in some ways, ‘post-truth’ has resonances with arguments advanced in the period a...

also argued that politicians should do more to counter the danger posed by climate change “ravaging” the biosphere. He called for massive investment in technological solutions such as biofuels. “They deserve a priority and commitment from government akin to that accorded to the Manhattan project to build the first atom bomb or the Apollo moon landing project in the 60s.” Also at the festival, f...

within the linguistic paradigm, there is a problem that was always connected with coherence conceptions of truth: how we may, in light of the evidence available to us, raise an unconditional truth claim that aims beyond what is justified. in other words, within the linguistic paradigm, if the truth of a proposition can no longer be conceived as correspondence with something in the world, then h...

In order to shed light on the question of whether reliabilism entails or excludes certain kinds of truth theories, I examine two arguments that purport to establish that reliabilism cannot be combined with antirealist and epistemic theories of truth. I take antirealism about truth to be the denial of the recognition-transcendence of truth, and epistemic theories to be those that identify truth ...