Interpretation vs Veridicality - What's the difference?
interpretation | veridicality |
(countable) An act of interpreting or explaining what is obscure; a translation; a version; a construction.
(countable) A sense given by an interpreter; an exposition or explanation given; meaning .
(uncountable) The power of explaining.
(countable) An artist's way of expressing his thought or embodying his conception of nature.
(countable) An act or process of applying general principles or formulae to the explanation of the results obtained in special cases.
(countable, physics) An approximation that allows aspects of a mathematical theory to be discussed in ordinary language.
(countable, logic, model theory) An assignment of a truth value to each propositional symbol of a propositional calculus.
Truth.
(psychology, philosophy) The degree to which something, such as a knowledge structure, is veridical; the degree to which an experience, perception, or interpretation accurately represents reality.
*1996 , , The Sciences of the Artificial , 3rd ed.:
*:Symbol structures can, and commonly do, serve as internal representations (e.g. "mental images") of the environments to which the symbol system is seeking to adapt. They allow it to model that environment with greater or less veridicality and in greater or less detail, and consequently to reason about it.
As nouns the difference between interpretation and veridicality
is that interpretation is interpretation while veridicality is truth.interpretation
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Noun
- the interpretation of a foreign language, of a dream, or of an enigma.
- Commentators give various interpretations of the same passage of Scripture.''
See also
* (logic) valuationExternal links
* *veridicality
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(veridicalities)References
*veridicalityin the Dictionary of Cognitive Science from the University of Alberta.