Practical Truth Research Articles

SOME QUESTIONNAIRE OF REASONABLE CONSULTATION ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF COMPLEX JUDICIAL ENGINEERING AND TECHNICAL EXPERTISE IN THE FIELD OF LABOR PROTECTION AND ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING EXPERTISE

It is impossible to establish the truth in criminal proceedings while considering cases related to related to non-compliance with the requirements of the Law of Ukraine with the requirements of the Law of Ukraine "On Labor Protection" without performing forensic examinations regarding the investigation of causal relations and establishing circumstances preceding the accident. As a rule, the research subject in this case is materialized carriers of information about a harmful event that had taken place. Therefore, from a technical point of view establishing the presence of circumstances that preceded and led to adverse effects and their direct connection with the occurrence of these consequences is one of the issues of Forensic Engineering.
 The causation assessment is based on a theoretical research of circumstances of an accident event on the basis of materials provided for research. The use of philosophical and logic means is the basis of forensic research on the causation determination and the establishment of objective truth in legal practice.
 The article reveals contemporary views on the problems of causal relationship between socially dangerous acts and the socially dangerous consequences of these acts in combination with expert practice while research related to electrical injury.
 The completeness and objectivity of the expert's opinion on the results of the studies of accidents related to electrical injury depends on the availability of expertise in the field of electrical engineering and requires the mandatory involvement of a forensic expert in relevant field.

La verdad práctica en Santo Tomás de Aquino

This paper deals with two texts of Aquinas (Summa theologiae, I-II, q. 57, a. 5, ad 3, and Expositio libri peryermeneias I, 3, 107 ss.) where the truth of practical intellect is defined in accordance with Aristotle’s account in Nicomachean Ethics, 1139a27-31. The proposed interpretation tries to show that both texts are arguably not incompatible. A last important claim is that according to the definition of practical truth practical intellect is supposed to work as a measure for reality.

La recepción de la doctrina aristotélica sobre el derecho natural en el "Comentario de la Etica a Nicómaco" de Tomás de Aquino

This paper is concerned with the use Aquinas makes of the Aristotelian theory of the first principles within the practical domain. The author tries to show how Aquinas connects such a theory with both Stoic and Christian idea of natural law. So, he is able to read the Nicomachean Ethics' text on natural justice in a different and very original way.

Professor Saidi; founder of the SSK resident’s forum

The resident’s forum is a chapter of the surgical society of Kenya formed by the associate members who are by large surgical residents and medical officers with interest in surgery. It is a platform for continuous surgical education and networking among the associate members. This forum has had a great impact on surgical trainees in the country for now six years, since its inception by Professor Hassan. Professor Hassan held at heart, a great passion for teaching, his love and commitment was like no other. Despite the ever growing number of students both in medical school and residency, professor juggled mentoring his students with commitment amidst work and family life. This, he fulfilled faithfully when there was so much more for him to do. He championed as a premier luminary of clinical practice to hundreds of medical students and residents. His teachings represented the truth in medical practice, correcting errors and advancing towards standard practice. He became a mentor to many students in University of Nairobi medical school and residents in Nairobi and Aga Khan University. Keywords: Resident forum, Surgical society, Hassan Saidi

Post Media Literacy: Menyaksikan Kuasa Media Bersama Michel Foucault

This article would like to present Michel Foucault’s idea concerning Knowledge and Power in media industry. As a contemporary intellectual, Foucault’s thought has a unique style of postmodernism. His thought had gone beyond traditional critical theory whose trying to disclose the relation of power and economic behind the ideology of media. Foucault’s thought had given new perspective in understanding how the media produce truth under tightly control process into something that seems normal. With the assumption of media has the power to create mass culture, which has to be studied critically by media literacy approach, Foucault’s thought had given new space of discursive. An alternative thought on how to estimate the work of mass media as supervisor of truth and creator of information trough normalization practice.

The ideal worker as real abstraction: labour conflict and subjectivity in nursing

The article interrogates the significance of the ideal nurse as an ideal worker in a context of labour conflict, using interview material from a study of an episode of conflict ending in the collective resignation of a group of nurses from a Swedish hospital ward. It puts forward the thesis that this ideal worker is best understood as an abstraction that ‘achieves practical truth’, that is, as a hypostasized practice or a ‘real abstraction’. Hence, this management ideology exceeds strictly discursive dimensions. The analysis points to an enactment at the level of work practice prior to any explicit articulation of this ideology. Analysis attends to positioning on collective action, the identity work this positioning entailed and the ‘truth’ of nursing summoned therein, pointing to the ubiquity of the ideal worker in nursing along with its practical enactment.

Practical Truth and Its First Principles in the Theory of Grisez, Boyle, and Finnis

Practical Truth and Its First Principles in the Theory of Grisez, Boyle, and Finnis

Search for Transcendence Revealed in Childhood Narratives of Poverty, Abuse and Neglect, and Social Isolation

From the voices of teens, I heard painful and personal life stories of poverty, neglect and abuse, and social isolation. Motivated by a desire to elevate children’s voices, honor them with dignity and respect, and bring empathy to the social and political agenda, I found a profound depth of helplessness and hopelessness but also a spiritual hunger amid our failings to meet children’s rights to basic necessities, protection from harm, and participation in society. In their chronically negative and traumatic experiences, children’s autobiographies reveal creative struggles to be heard, receive help, feel worthy, and find hope; their status precludes them from adult-ordered systems, and they are left to choose actions that they know are harmful. Yet they search for transcendence from their material and temporal experiences; four of the over 50 voices spoke of newfound meaning and hope. I conclude with a need to invite and listen to children’s voices and experiences; to acknowledge the therapeutic benefit for the teller of one’s of telling one’s story and the practical truths to be revealed for the researcher listening; and to more intentionally acknowledge and respond to the spiritual hunger in the consideration of childhood experiences.

Aristotle’s Conception of Practical Truth

Aristotle’s notion of practical truth is fundamentally important to both the rationality and the practicality of practical reasoning. But what is practical truth? I argue for an original interpretation according to which practical truth is the truth about what is unqualifiedly good for a particular person when all of her particular circumstances are taken into account. In contrast to other current interpretations, this one allows practical truth to fall within Aristotle’s standard account of truth, and it explains the sense in which practical truth is nonetheless distinctly practical, using Aristotle’s so-called Guise of the Good account of motivation.

Hobbes on Political Authority, Practical Reason and Truth

The role of sovereign authority in Hobbes' political philosophy is to establish peace and stability by serving as a definitive and unambiguous source of law. Although these broad outlines of Hobbes' account of political authority are uncontentious, matters quickly become more complicated once one seeks its normative basis. This much is evident from recent debates on the normative status of the laws of nature and the related issue as to whether Hobbes is better categorised as an incipient legal positivist or as a heterodox natural law thinker. In this paper I argue that although the positivist and natural law commitments in Hobbes' theory of political authority can be partially reconciled, such a reconciliation points to the need for more substantive theories of practical reason and truth than are to be found in Hobbes' official statements on these topics. Section II examines the positivist and natural law dimensions in Hobbes' thought and suggests that the role of sovereign authority in providing the definitive interpretation of the laws of nature allows a partial reconciliation to be effected. In section III, I consider the tension between this reconciliation and Hobbes' instrumentalism about practical reason and equivocal separation of authority and truth.

NAUJŲJŲ MEDIJŲ VARTOTOJAS-KŪ­RĖJAS IR KINEMATOGRAFINIS MĄSTYMAS

In our contemporary world, when new technologies are becoming more and more in­tensive, the habits of media users are inevitably changing. The practical behaviour of media users is altering in such a way that passive receivers of information are now becoming active mediate users. Due to this dramatic transformation, the situation of new media has become interminable. It means that evident changes have not yet acquired their final determination or any stable theoretical background or explanation. However, we must not forget the elementary scientific and practical truth that every new expression of the media in all ages (from spoken word, books, newspapers, magazines to the internet) is formed on the basis of practical expressions as well as on valuable theoretical discourse. The pros­pect of the evolution of practical media and of communicational sciences shows that media of the past influences the recent media. This universal axiom of science and culture can be considered an evident factor which is a starting point for any discourse on our social or cultural experience as well as on the socio-cultural future prospects. The article discusses the problem of the possibility for the user-creator of new media – the internet, to make an effective use of postmodern cinema practice and theory (by Gilles Deleuze) in order to understand the trajectory of both practical and transcendent thinking. Deleuze states that the postmodern European cinema has become a conceptual instrument, which stimulates the spectator to create his own meanings, because they are not provided directly. At the cinema, long plan-sequences, which have not yet undergone any montage cuttings, provide every help for constructing one’s own narration based on the cinematographical material. The spec­tator has to search for a hidden meaning and in a way he has to make a psychological analysis of himself. This kind of research stimulates the prolific imagination and creativity of the spectator. This new situation enables the user of the media to become an active and responsible creator of proper life, when innumerable choices are opening before his eyes. Therefore, if we have in mind these consistent patterns and analogically consider new media user’s situation, it is possible to agree with Manovich, that the everyday users of the internet are able and have to create a meaningful narrative for themselves, if only they care for the problem of mean­ing. A new media user does it in a similar way as a creator of classical cinema; which means that as a user of new media he gets his single plans from a data base and then he constructs his structure of sintagma-story-narrative. Deleuze’s theory was dealing with the problem of space montage inside the cinema camera object-glass long before the internet appeared. On the whole, the theories of the modern cinema can be helpful for a better understanding of newest internet media and for its influence on the conscious and subconscious mind of modern man. In other words, the ideological weight of classical cinema is getting smaller, while the weight of creative power stimulated by the internet in creative personalities is becoming greater.

Development and Application of Milk-Run Distribution Systems in the Express Industry Based on Saving Algorithm

This paper introduces the milk-run schema into the express distribution logistics through the feasibility analysis of application of cyclic goods-taking schema in the express industry. In order to reach fully loaded as far as possible in distribution, the article improves the traditional model, adopting multi-objective decision and conforming constraint conditions to Milk-run schema, even approximating the practical truth solves model through the C-W saving algorithm. It can effectively shorten the distance and Lower costs by means of reasonable route planning. Finally, the paper has verified the model and its effectiveness of arithmetic application by means of cases analysis.

Entendimiento agente y razón práctica

Este trabajo muestra el rol central del intelecto agente, no sólo en el conocimiento especulativo (como describieron ampliamente los escolásticos) sino también en el conocimiento práctico. Este es de crucial importancia, tanto en la percepción de los primeros principios morales como en la determinación de la verdad práctica sobre lo que es bueno y conveniente en una situación dada. La demostración de lo anterior descansa en la distinción entre la facultad estimativa animal y la facultad cognitiva humana.

Barth’s Understanding of Revelation for the Possibility of the Practical Truth Concept of Theology : Concentrated on the Concept of Reality and Possibility of Revelation

Barth’s Understanding of Revelation for the Possibility of the Practical Truth Concept of Theology : Concentrated on the Concept of Reality and Possibility of Revelation

Razón axiológica y práctica en Husserl

The aim of this article is to offer some interpretative keys of Husserls material Axiology and Practice. The study of the former focuses on the fulfilment and truth in not objectivant acts. The latter analyzes the meanings that the notion of end acquires in Husserl and connects the practical truth with the categorial imperative in its Husserlian version, that says act according to the best knowing and the best conscience, applied to both particular actions and the common will of perfecting that presides over them. The article ends with valuation.

Action, contemplation, and happiness: an essay on Aristotle

The notion of practical wisdom is one of Aristotle's greatest inventions. It has inspired philosophers as diverse as Martin Heidegger, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Elizabeth Anscombe, Michael Thompson, and John McDowell. Now a leading scholar of ancient philosophy offers a challenge to received accounts of practical wisdom by situating it in the larger context of Aristotle's views on knowledge and reality. That happiness is the end pursued by practical wisdom is commonly agreed. What is disputed is whether happiness is to be found in the practical life of political action, in which we exhibit courage, temperance, and other virtues of character, or in the contemplative life, where theoretical wisdom is the essential virtue. C. D. C. Reeve argues that the dichotomy is bogus, that these lives are in fact parts of a single life, which is the best human one. In support of this view, he develops innovative accounts of many of the central notions in Aristotle's metaphysics, epistemology, and psychology, including matter and form, scientific knowledge, dialectic, educatedness, perception, understanding, political science, practical truth, deliberation, and deliberate choice. These accounts are based directly on freshly translated passages from many of Aristotle's writings. Action, Contemplation, and Happiness is an accessible essay not just on practical wisdom but on Aristotle's philosophy as a whole.

An Empirical Examination of Validity in Evaluation

This study addresses validity issues in evaluation that stem from Ernest R. House’s book, Evaluating With Validity. The authors examine American Journal of Evaluation articles from 1980 to 2010 that report the results of policy and program evaluations. The authors classify these evaluations according to House’s “major approaches” typology (Systems Analysis, Behavioral Objectives, Decision making, Goal-free, Professional Review, Art Criticism, Quasi-legal, and Case Study) and the types of validity (measurement, design, interpretation, use) the evaluations consider. Analyzing the intersection of evaluation type and validity type, the authors explore the status of House’s standards of Truth, Beauty, and Justice in evaluation practice.

Telling culturally construed truth in clinical practice

Your Editorial entitled “Truth telling in clinical practice” (Oct 1, p 1197)1 raises an old, albeit contentious, issue in medicine. Any caring physician knows how important it is to inform the patient about the diagnosis and prognosis of a disease, and the treatment options. Since culture creates the context within which individuals experience life, illness, suffering, and death, cultural and moral meanings of diseases profoundly affect clinical medicine. Thus the ethics of truth telling in medicine is embedded in cultural meaning and construction of what is understood as truth.

Consideration in Selection of the Control Group in Diagnostic Tests

We read with interest the article “Human Circulating MicroRNA-1 and MicroRNA-126 as Potential Novel Indicators for Acute Myocardial Infarction” by Guangwen Long et al 1. The authors gathered blood samples from 17 patients and 25 healthy adults at Tongji Hospital between October 2009 and May 2010. They found the ability of the miR-1 score to differentiate the AMI group from the control group, and by using different threshold scores, they achieved both high sensitivity and specificity for the diagnosis of AMI patients. The results of miR-126 score were similar. They came to the conclusion that miR-1 and miR-126 had potential utility as novel biomarkers for clinic diagnosis of AMI. This is indeed a remarkable study and the results hold a lot of truth in clinical practice, especially the good correlation between the plasma concentration of miR-1/miR-126 and cTnI 2. What concerns us the most is whether miR-1 and miR-126 demonstrate potential utility for clinic diagnosis of AMI. The control group was composed of 25 healthy adult volunteers with normal electrocardiogram and no history of cardiovascular diseases. The difference between AMI patients and healthy people is meaningful. Nevertheless, the identification of the AMI patients with asymptomatic healthy people in the control group is clinical irrelevant. Diagnostic tests and comparative studies are substantially different. The evaluation indicators for diagnostic tests are sensitivity and specificity. However, the objective of a comparative study is usually to detect the correlation between exposures and outcomes, avoiding possible confounders and bias, which is totally different from that of a diagnostic test. When normal and healthy people are selected as subjects of the control group, the specificity of the diagnostic test will be significantly elevated. For instance, if the subjects in the study are divided into the AMI group and non-AMI group, patients with diagnosis index below cut point 1 should be diagnosed as non-AMI and those with index higher than cut point 1 as AMI (figure ​(figure1).1). However, if the subjects belong to the AMI group and healthy group, cut point 2 should be selected. In clinical practice, those whose seek for diagnosis often suffer from various diseases, many of which would also leave some impact on the potential indicators. We can learn from figure ​figure11 that many of those who with diagnosis index higher than cut point 2 are non-AMI. Therefore, the specificity would decrease substantially, which will result in great increase of the probability of false positive. Fig 1 Different cut points for different study population Generally speaking, if objective is screening AMI, the control should be normal people; otherwise, the control should be non-AMI. Non-AMI patients should be used instead of the control group made up of healthy volunteers in this case, in that the objective is to identify patients of target disease among all patients who might seek for diagnosis. These patients are definitely different from normal people. Similar mistakes are common in scientific researches, which call for attention from every researcher. If normal people are selected as control group, the result can't be applied to the population of non-AMI patients. This always results in the high specificity in clinical researches but low specificity in clinical practice. As a result, we consider that the sensitivity of miR-1 and miR-126 as novel potential biomarkers for clinic diagnosis of AMI is dubious, while the specificity is questionable and might be potentially overestimated. In conclusion, the subjects in the control group should be carefully selected to make sure that they are identical with the population that the potential method might be applied to.

Texas Department of Transportation 3D Transverse Profiling System for High-Speed Rut Measurement

Pavement rutting is a critical measure of road condition. Severe rutting indicates road structure deformation and exposes drivers to hazards, especially when it holds rainwater. The Pavement Management Information System requires ruts to be measured regularly for pavement condition score calculation. In the past few decades, a number of automated rut-measurement devices have been developed and used for highway speed data collection. However, all these devices exhibit limitations on measuring ground truth in practice. This paper introduces a high-speed true three-dimensional (3D) pavement surface measurement tool that can produce accurate rut data at highway speeds. Network-level data collections were conducted and the results analyzed to evaluate and verify the system.