Study results from journals with a higher impact factor are closer to “truth”: a meta-epidemiological study by Andreas Heidenreich, Nora Eisemann, Alexander Katalinic, Joachim Hübner

“…We investigated whether findings from studies published in journals with higher Journal Impact Factors (JIFs) are closer to truth than findings from studies in less-cited journals via a meta-epidemiological approach. …”
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Justificación, educación y libertad by Mónica Gómez Salazar

“…It is concluded that there is no justification that is closer to truth or reality. The relevance of a justified belief with good reasons lies in its practical consequences for specific conditions of existence.…”
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Is La bohѐme a verismo Opera? by Leah P. Bartlam

“…According to William Berger, “verismo is often translated as ‘realism’ but the word is closer to ‘truth’ in Italian.” The term was applied to literature beginning in the 1870s, and began to be applied to opera during the 1890s. …”
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LAS TEORÍAS DEL CONTROL Y EVALUACIÓN ORGANIZACIONAL INDEPENDIENTE by Rafael Franco Ruiz

“…This is the purpose of this work in relation to auditing, a term widely used in the language of organizational control to which various meanings are given, according to the particular intentions and interests of the authors, when in reality the research must advance to the construction of affirmations or discourses that go beyond the speculative or simply ideological field to bring those discourses closer to truth or simply to validity. This objective is developed from a critical analytical method that starts from the criticism of the theories of business evolution, to point out their incompatibility with auditing, continuing with the analysis of the concepts of auditing under discussion, without formalization or foundation, from the perspective of social order and the consequent social relations, about social practices of evaluation and control in organizations, without trying to give it a photographic focus, but rather to construct more important statements for knowledge, orienting the work to an activity committed to discovering the way things are, instead of dedicating itself to mere contingent descriptions (Galassi, 2008).Las teorías del control y evaluación organizacional independiente It concludes with a classification of traditions on the control and evaluation of organizations from the institutional and business evolution perspectives that allows to decant a concept of structured auditing.…”
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Authentizität als Streitwert: ‚In Stahlgewittern‘ gegen ‚Im Westen nichts Neues‘. Zur Frage nach der Ethik der Ästhetik von Kriegsliteratur by Ursula Regener

“…<br />As a purpose of writing, authenticity is not only to be found in war fiction; in Germany, «Neue Sachlichkeit» establishes a new aesthetic concept that promises to get closer to truth by a matter-of-fact representation rather than by an expressive one. …”
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