Search results for "truth"

I saperi della comunicazione nell'era della post-verità

2021

In this volume, the authors deal with some issues about communication and theis new ways, especially in our era of post-truth.

Da Trump a Foucault. Postverità e parresia

2021

Vaccaro analyzes the philosophical-political status of the category "Post-Truth", from Arendt to Foucault, and opposes to it the concept of Parrhesia with its political radicality.

Au royaume des discours incomplets : ambigüité et malentendu dans la conversation entre mafieux

2013

Im Reich der Andeutungen : Bewusst mehrdeutige und missverständliche Aussagen in Mafiosi-Gesprächen. Beim mündlichen Austausch müssen sich Mitglieder der Cosa Nostra gleichzeitig an die Schweigepflicht nach außen und die Wahrheitspflicht nach innen halten. Die Sprache der Mafiosi muss daher eine semantisch indirekte Form annehmen, die dem Sprechenden seinen Spielraum lässt, um die Unvorhersehbarkeit seiner Absichten zu bewahren. Diese Sprachform hat Tommaso Buscetta dazu gebracht, dieses Milieu als „das Reich der Andeutungen“ zu bezeichnen. Die Ordnung der Mafia beruht auf einem wohl verstandenen doppelten Spiel bewusst missverständlicher Aussagen, im Sinne von Jankélévitch, die keine falsc…

Content analysis of Spanish judgements addressing the sexual transmission of HIV: 1996-2016.

2018

This study performed a content analysis of the language of the Spanish judgements addressing the sexual transmission of HIV in order to determine its possible interrelationship with HIV-related stigma. All judgements and writs dictated by Spanish penal and civil jurisdictions between 1981 and December 2016 were obtained through a systematic search of the Spanish legal databases. The inclusion criterion was that the possible transmission of HIV was judged as an individual infraction, regardless of whether other infractions were involved. Twenty judgements were selected and analysed through direct content analysis assisted by the software MAXQDA 12. The majority of the cases (85%) were brough…

Cancer Patients and Medical Practice. Some Historical and Cultural Considerations

1997

The search for identity in the narrative stylistic and poetic study

2016

This dissertation deals with the quest for narrative identity in four distinct narratives: Le Premier Homme, by Albert Camus; Les Oliviers de la justice, by Jean Pélégri; Ébauche du père, by Jean Sénac; and Outremer, by Morgan Sportes. The authors of these narratives belonged to the community of French people born in Algeria and, later on, to that of the pieds-noirs. The texts examine mainly the end of French Algeria. This accounts for the reference to the years 1954-1962, among other periods of time, and to the tragic consequences these years led to, including exile and uprooting. The designation “French Algeria” in itself contains at least a dual reference to identity, if not referring to…

Interpretation, Truth and Correspondence

2000

The correspondence theory of truth is usually considered unsuitable for qualitative research. This is because of the interpretive nature of social reality and subjective nature of research procedures. Contra these ideas it is argued that the correspondence theory of truth is presupposed in the practice of qualitative research. This theory does not, however, dictate any methods for verifying the interpretations. Various theories of truth are seen as necessary because of the complexity of the interpretation process.

Automatic orientation and 3D modelling from markerless rock art imagery

2013

This paper investigates the use of two detectors and descriptors on image pyramids for automatic image orientation and generation of 3D models. The detectors and descriptors replace manual measurements and are used to detect, extract and match features across multiple imagery. The Scale-Invariant Feature Transform (SIFT) and the Speeded Up Robust Features (SURF) will be assessed based on speed, number of features, matched features, and precision in image and object space depending on the adopted hierarchical matching scheme. The influence of applying in addition Area Based Matching (ABM) with normalised cross-correlation (NCC) and least squares matching (LSM) is also investigated. The pipel…

Terrorismo e Mafia

2020

The issue of «Meridiana» analyses counter-terrorism and mafia strategies over the course of Italian history from a double viewpoint (both legal and historical). The contributions of the different authors follow the evolution of criminal, substantive and procedural rules while identifying a unitary, «emerging» trait. Exceptionality, which has become one of the permanent characteristics of the Italian criminal justice system. The studies of some famous cases highlights the twists of the legal categories, the use of repentants, and the close collaboration between the judges and the public prosecutors. Risky interference between historiography and procedure requires that the criminal dimension …

Truth and Historicism in Kuhn’s Thesis of Methodological Incommensurability

2013

Methodological incommensurability is a Thomas Kuhn’s thesis affirming that there are not shared, objective methodological rules or neutral scientific standards for theory comparison and choice. This thesis has often been interpreted as a relativistic and irrationalist claim on the incomparability of scientific theories. Since every paradigm refers to its standards, problem-field and aims, theory choice is subjective and arbitrary. Moreover it seems that, in his latest works, Kuhn abandons this aspect of incommensurability to focus on semantic incommensurability. On the contrary I will argue against the interpretation of methodological incommensurability as a source of epistemological relati…