D. Both modes generate "Facts" 1.
The framework provides notions of facts and goals that include interactions with the environment via external goal requests, observations that generate facts, and actions that achieve goals.
George J. Tenet's resignation will provide a political windfall for George W. Bush if it permits the media and the electorate to focus on the C.I.A.'s inability to generate facts instead of on the Bush administration's proven determination to ignore unwelcome facts.
The term 'social construction' refers to any knowledge-generating process in which what counts as a fact is substantively determined by social factors, and in which different social factors would likely generate facts that are inconsistent with what is actually produced.
All their generated fact questions were annotated by two human judgers, and a question was classified as "good" when both of the two annotators agreed on that.
Hmm.... Simmons' work generates fact checking that consistently shows errors and misleading material if not simply purposeful distortions and falsehoods -- for example, here and here, and this very cogent and direct dissection of a Simmons' op-ed, "Wind power blows past distortions of fossil-fueled opponents".
Science not only generates facts but seeks to explain them, and the interlocking and well-supported explanations for those facts are known as theories.
The simple mechanisms via which social media promotes the lowest common denominator, prefers viral lies over complicated facts, generates fact-proof bubbles, and does away with any pretense of fact-checking, have enabled Mr. Trump, a professional attention vampire and a smart hate trader, to open a door to a new and terrifying set of possible futures.
His point is that whereas our society is trained and expected to respond rationally to empirical and scientifically generated facts and information (James 1929, p. 15) — namely Common Sense About Smoking — our actual lives and sense of being in the world are experienced differently.
The purpose of the former is (hopefully) to synthesize novel ideas/leads from numerous known facts, whereas the purpose of the latter is to generate novel facts filling the gaps in knowledge.
