Contra Malcolm, many today assume that justification does not depend on strict criteria with the help of which the truth of a statement can be determined with absolute certainty, but "on appeals to the simplicity, plausibility, and predictive adequacy of an explanatory system as a whole" (Chihara & Fodor 1965: 197).
Then, with the help of ground truth, the detection rate per person is computed.
Gooden, Gilder said, told him yesterday that he would be willing to take a polygraph, or lie detector, test to help establish the truth of his version of the incident if the police officers would do the same.
One of the key passages in the al-Sweady judgment referred to officials of the Treasury solicitor's department lying on a number of occasions in claiming that they knew of no undisclosed documents that might help establish the truth of the Iraqis' allegations.
Last week the Council of Europe, responding to pleas from the Gongadze family and the parliamentary commission investigating the matter, said it was willing to help establish the truth of the tapes and the identity of the body through forensic tests.
Once I saw what was really going on at Escuela Caribe, I felt I needed to help expose the truth of what this school was doing in the name of "therapy".
He saw photography as a tool to help prove the truth of his claims, and often had other photographers do his technical work.
But more importantly, it will help uncover the truth of what happened, and educate all healthcare providers and administrators about ways to be better prepared for the next public health emergency".
Thus I offer these comments to help explore not the truth of falsity of their claims, but rather their generality, explanatory power, and utility in application to real problems.
That wouldn't offer him much help in parsing the truth of a story I noticed in Al Hawza.
