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  1. (1 other version)Denying Rumours.Renard Jean-Bruno - 2007 - Diogenes 54 (1):43-58.
    We can construct a typology of rumours - defined broadly as unverified news - according to their relation to reality after their degree of veracity has been established, at least in the current state of knowledge, by experts (historians, scientists, police officers, journalists, and so on). If a rumour turns out to be correct it becomes an item of information. If a rumour is untrue it comes into the categories of affirming or denying rumours. Affirming rumours, which are the most (...)
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  • Prolegomena tot een filosofie der geschiedenis.J. H. Nota - 1961 - Bijdragen 22 (4):425-439.
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  • (1 other version)Denying Rumours.Jean-Bruno Renard - 2007 - Diogenes 54 (1):43-58.
    A typology of rumours is constructed according to their relation to reality after their veracity has been authenticated. True rumours become information. Untrue rumours are categorized as affirming or denying rumours; affirming rumours state the reality of imaginary facts, whereas denying rumours undermine the reality of established facts. Denying rumour types are distinguished and discussed under rubrics of alleged survival, doubles, bogus events and so on, and through their characteristic features of hypercritical thinking, hidden reality revelation and plot denunciation. In (...)
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