In researching the problem, Dr. Pnueli, then at Tel Aviv University, came across the work of the philosopher Arthur Prior, who had developed "tense logic" to evaluate statements whose truthfulness changes over time.
The third distinction pertains to two distinct ways in which we can evaluate statements across possible worlds.
With our method we can also evaluate statements made, for instance, by politicians or the media, such as that people are greatly upset by certain events.
(Generating benefits when put into use as as a social policy is the third of the three models the Mohists propose to evaluate statements or teachings).
American fact-check sites tend to rely on researchers who evaluate statements by public figures, or articles and memes, then rate them on a scale from abject lie to empirical truth.
This lesson could open with student statements of their views of the presidency, include an examination of Article II of the United States Constitution where it discusses the executive branch of government, and evaluate statements by past Presidents on how they view or viewed the presidency.
Nor is it known whether religious believers and nonbelievers differ in how they evaluate statements of fact.
To investigate the neural correlates of belief for both religious and nonreligious modes of thought, we asked Christians and nonbelievers to evaluate statements of both types while in the MRI scanner.
We did not ask the experts to evaluate statements addressing misconceptions because those statements are not scientifically accurate and are often perceived as unclear to experts, who have a much more nuanced perspective than nonexpert students.
Discrepancies in the number of students and percentages are accounted for by students who did not answer all questions Students were asked to evaluate statements regarding their goals in the pathology course.
