The divers are shocked to discover, as they try to solve the mystery through research, that alleged facts in dusty books and files are sometimes false.
" Critics hold that if the evidence we have that humans understand is the same as the evidence we might have that a visiting extra-terrestrial alien understands, which is the same as the evidence that a robot understands, the presuppositions we may make in the case of our own species are not relevant, for presuppositions are sometimes false.
Commenting on this problem, Harris acknowledges, "Whatever we study, we are obliged to take subjective reports seriously, all the while knowing that they are sometimes false or incomplete".
It is sometimes suggested, not that physicalism is false, but that the entire 'project of physicalism' — the project in philosophy of mind of debating whether physicalism is true, and trying to establish or disprove its truth by philosophical argument — is misguided.
There are sometimes false-negative results: in women under 50, mammography is likely to miss 20 to 25percentt of existing cancers, and in women over 50, it misses 8 to 10percentt.
This study found that some important information was not always given to caretakers, and when given, it was sometimes provided with false reasons.
It's sometimes easier to give false praise and/or no feedback at all, and simply not hire someone again, than it is to give negative feedback.
Our emotions drive a craving for more certainty in our lives, even if it's sometimes based on a false sense of security.
Even landmarks, like the Hearst Building on West Fifty-seventh Street, are occasionally gutted and reduced to false fronts—"façadicide," it's sometimes called.
In child welfare, there is sometimes a false dichotomy between child safety and family preservation.
Authenticity is sometimes a false currency, however: photographs claiming to show a bombing in one country may have been taken in another several months before, while false Twitter rumours can spread rapidly in the wake of a natural disaster or terrorist attack.
