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Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction is an American television anthology series created by Lynn Lehmann, presented by Dick Clark Productions, and produced and aired by the Fox network from 1997 to 2002. [1] Each episode features stories, all of which appear to defy logic, and some of which are allegedly based on actual events. The viewer is offered ...
Verisimilitude (/ ˌ v ɛr ɪ s ɪ ˈ m ɪ l ɪ tj uː d /) is the "lifelikeness" or believability of a work of fiction.The word comes from Latin: verum meaning truth and similis meaning similar. [1]
First, false statements of fact can lead to civil liability if they are "said with a sufficiently culpable mental state". [8] This possibly includes conscious lies about military service. [9] The second category is a subset of the first: knowingly false statements (deliberate lies). [8] This includes things like libel and slander.
We decided to test your knowledge by blending commonly believed facts with those that might sound false but are actually true. So, how many of these so-called false facts do you still believe?
THE FACTS: The audacious claim that Biden as president would have seen 2 million deaths rests on a false accusation. Biden never came out against Trump’s decision to restrict travel from China.
THE FACTS: False. Biden has made no such pledge. He’s rejected calls from some on the left to defund the police, proposing more money for departments to improve their practices.
A dogmatic falsificationist ignores that every observation is theory-impregnated. Being theory-impregnated means that it goes beyond direct experience. For example, the statement "Here is a glass of water" goes beyond experience, because the concepts of glass and water "denote physical bodies which exhibit a certain law-like behaviour" (Popper ...
Below is a quick fact check of Trump’s 11 provably false claims in the interview. Terrorist attacks : Trump repeated his false claim that “we didn’t have one terrorist attack” during his ...