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Standards prescribe the content and structure of such claims and allow third parties to assess the veracity of thereof.
Epistemology
We know about things through direct participation in them or through representations.
For things we experience directly we do not need any further assurance that they are true.
Ontology, epistemology and semiology
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Someone or something presents data as a claim
- A a claim concerns at least one property of an agent or activity or one paramater of a state and is accompanied by metadata (the instrument, agent and sampling frame)
Someone or something evaluates the claim
Epistemology
We know about things through direct participation in them or through representations.
For things we experience directly we do not need any further assurance that they are true.
For discussion: Where do we list the natural processes that lead to climate change? Should there be an event class? An event is like an activity but without the intention of an agent. An accident is an event but it is not an activity.
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