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Plausible vs Veridicality - What's the difference?

plausible | veridicality |

As an adjective plausible

is seemingly or apparently valid, likely, or acceptable; credible: a plausible excuse.

As a noun veridicality is

truth.

plausible

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Seemingly or apparently valid, likely, or acceptable; credible: a plausible excuse.
  • *
    • In short, the twin assumptions that syntactic rules are category-based, and that there are a highly restricted finite set of categories in any natural language (perhaps no more than a dozen major categories), together with the assumption that the child either knows'' (innately) or ''learns (by experience) that all rules are structure-dependent ( =category-based), provide a highly plausible model of language acquisition, in which languages become learnable in a relatively short, finite period of time (a few years).
  • Obtaining approbation; specifically pleasing; apparently right; specious.
    • a plausible''' pretext; '''plausible''' manners; a '''plausible delusion
  • Using specious arguments or discourse. (rfv-sense)
    • a plausible speaker
  • (obsolete) Worthy of being applauded; praiseworthy; commendable; ready.
    • (Bishop Hacket)

    Derived terms

    * plausibility

    veridicality

    English

    Noun

    (veridicalities)
  • 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.

    • References

    * veridicality in the Dictionary of Cognitive Science from the University of Alberta.