Truth pointers

From: Sfera (kromozoma_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 02/21/05 

Date: 21 Feb 2005 02:02:55 -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.

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