Re: Truth pointers

From: Bug (ophiuchus_at_atlas.sk)
Date: 03/11/05 

Date: 11 Mar 2005 01:54:29 -0800

> Hi everybody,
>
> We are working on a site (www.aithne.net) where we pretend to make a
> selection of texts. Because the intention is to escape subjectivity,
> or at least to share it, I have started a list to bear in mind at the
> time of evaluating any text which comes to our hands. Of course, the
> first thing I have come across is what we could call the "degree of
> truth" the content of the text has.
>
> Of course this can be very subjective again, though I have the feeling
> there are some kind of common clues which raise the truthness (I am
> not talking about the real truth but our feeling of truth) of any
> content. For example, if I talk about something which has happened and
> I give plenty of small details. Or if I happen to be someone who is
> socially recognized for what I am talking about (like distinguished
> scientific). Or if there is something observable (direct experience)
> of what I am talking about.
>
> These are only examples of something I haven't really thought much
> about, and though my last objective is to discuss them, the intention
> of this post is to ask for help to anyone who knows more about this
> subject. If you know authors, books, pages, journalists or any other
> movements, other discussion groups also interested on this... or
> whatever leads to know a bit better on which clues we generally rely
> to believe some writen content that lacks the replication properties.
> If you know anything of these and want to leave a note, you will
> surely help me. Thank you very much in advance.

Hello,

I have a couple of books I haven't yet read them completely, but that
maybe would help you:

- Representing Reality, Discourse, Rhetoric and Social Construction
(Jonathan Potter)
- Relevance (Dan Sperber & Deirdre Wilson).

I think its an interesting issue, I don't know if very much explored
but I hope you find more information (you could share it).

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