Rather than the infinite choices of fuzzy logic, or the two in binary logic, this would have options for false, true, sort of true, sort of false, and exactly half-way.
The ratio of true positives to false positives and false negatives?
So, OK. We tell and retell the true and false legends of Knute Rockne and winning one for the Gipper and all that, but we don't really mind.
Yet when asked if that statement about top five percent of taxpayers was true or false, the 800 Independent Coloradans were about equally divided on its veracity.
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The statements "are not protected by the First Amendment irrespective of whether they are true or false, " Selna wrote in an earlier ruling.
He changes the subject from the one on all of our minds to a false standard that distracts us from the true nature of the problem.
The recent series of investigative reports true, false or exaggerated puts Apple in the cross hairs in much the same way Walmart often is.
In the hands of a fraudster, such clients may be given false translations of documents that serve to hide the true nature of their investments or of the valuation of their portfolio.
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He challenged our reason for being, what we thought, how we lived, the truth or falsity of what we believed to be true or false.
They argued in the original High Court case that the government's assessment of the bank's true worth was false and almost guaranteed that they would end up with nothing.
Crazy rumors like Samsung shipping a phone with a bendable screen (which never had a chance of being true because the technology is barely out of the prototype stage), of course, proved false.
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Either or both could be true or false without affecting the truth or falsity of the other.
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But a popular pastime is to spread news and rumours, both true and false, that challenge the official script of government officials and state-propaganda organs.
And when this information, or reports, whether true or false, surface on the front page of newspapers, that makes the job of folks on the front lines tougher and it makes my job tougher -- which is why since I've been in office, my attitude has been zero tolerance for these kinds of leaks and speculation.
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He testified convincingly that he was uncomfortable giving out false information--especially because he knew the true state of affairs.
You often hear attacks on international adoption as robbing a child of his or her culture, and that's both true and false.
The first is true (I resigned as foreign minister because of that) but the second is false.
Rather than spending their time and effort trying to find the true causes of autism, they continue to repeat claims that have already been shown false.
"The notion of a 'graveyard of empires' is actually a false extrapolation from something that is true -- that there is tactical and strategic difficulty, " Porter says.
The suit alleges that Oliviero Toscani, an Italian, and Ken Shulman gained entry to the prison under false pretences, pretending to be journalists to hide the true purpose of the campaign.
The subterfuge of using different brokerage firms and multiple customer accounts is to give the false impression of increased market interest and depth, and to hide the true identities of the manipulators.
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Fourteen, there is substantial and credible evidence that the president may have engaged in witness tampering by coaching perspective witnesses and by narrating elaborate detailed false accounts of his relationship with Ms. Lewinsky as if those stories were true, intending that those witnesses believe the story and testify to it before a grand jury.
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That is especially true if the U.S. Senate buys into the false promise that the fatally flawed Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST) will somehow safeguard our rights of passage, despite our declining ability to project power in the face of growing Chinese access-denial capabilities.
These assertions cannot both be true. (In fact, both are likely to be false.) Either he has no grasp of the principles of corporate finance, or he has no principles.
We must be prepared to accept some false positives (predictions of harms that would not have occurred) in order to prevent some true positives (predictions of harm that would have occurred had we not intervened) from causing irreparable damage.
Many of the claims made for the digital revolution have turned out to be false, and the reason is almost invariably that their makers have failed to understand the true complexity of the world in which the revolution is taking place.
If the source of defamatory information about you (false information that reflects badly upon you) confirms that the information is true, your remedy lies against the source.
To begin with, the technique of constructing rigorously valid syllogisms to draw from false premises logical conclusions that may or may not actually be true is a common technique politicians use to sneak false conclusions past careful scrutiny.
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