fuzzy water quality index (fwqi) was applied in order to assess the degree of drinking water resources in yazd province, iran. thisstudy has also offered the creation of a new fuzzy water quality index (fwqi) to evaluate this tool’s applicability. 12 chemicalparameters including toxic and non-toxic heavy metals measured in 71 groundwater samples collected from drinking water resourcesin rural a...

Researchers have debated whether knowledge or certainty is a better candidate for the norm of assertion. Should you make an assertion only if you know it’s true? Or should you make an assertion only if you’re certain it’s true? If either knowledge or certainty is a better candidate, then this will likely have detectable behavioral consequences. I report an experiment that tests for relevant beh...

The reason that Professor Zeide (Zeide, 2010) objects so strongly with Popper’s falsification view of scientific theory (Popper, K.S., 1968) is because Professor Popper and Professor Zeide are defining, interpreting and using the terms “induction”, “verification” and “falsification” in different ways: they have different ontologies and metadata. There are many possible types of “induction” (log...