Truthier vs Truther - What's the difference?
truthier | truther |
(truthy)
(obsolete) Faithful; true.
* {{quote-book, c. 1800, J. H. Colls, Theodore
, passage=You […] are afraid Theodore your sweetheart shouldn't prove truthy .}}
(US, colloquial) Only superficially true; that is asserted or felt instinctively to be true, with no recourse to facts.
* 2011 , (Steven Pinker), The Better Angels of Our Nature , Penguin 2012, p. 595:
(computing, programming) Evaluating to true in a Boolean context.
* 2012 , David Flanagan, JavaScript Pocket Reference (page 40)
Person believing that the United States government perpetrated or allowed the terrorist attacks.
* May 22, 2006 , George Washington,
* September 13, 2009 , Stephen Collinson,
* September 20, 2009 , David Ignatius,
*:The Iranian president is even a "truther ," insisting that there was a hidden hand behind Sept. 11, 2001. "Could it be planned and executed without coordination with intelligence and security services — or their extensive infiltration?" he mused in the letter to Bush.
Person believing that the United States government perpetrates, supports, funds or allows false flag attacks.
* 2013 , D Wittkower, Philip K. Dick and Philosophy
* 2014 , Lori, Badura, Tell It Like It Isn't (Page 226)
* 2014 , Ralph Cinque, A review of the trailer of James Lambert's new film Group: alt.assassination.jfk
As an adjective truthier
is (truthy).As a noun truther is
person believing that the united states government perpetrated or allowed the terrorist attacks.truthier
English
Adjective
(head)truthy
English
Adjective
(er)- Historians today point out that each of these ringing assertions was, at best, truthy .
- In JavaScript, any expression or statement that expects a boolean value will work with a truthy or falsy value, so the fact that
&&does not always evaluate totrueorfalsedoes not cause practical problems.
Synonyms
* faithful, honest * truthlike, truthful, truthsome, veridicalAntonyms
* (computing) falsyDerived terms
* truthinessReferences
*See also
* factytruther
English
Noun
(en noun)Social Proof, George Washington's Blog:
- Therefore, virtually every press release or statement about 9/11 should include a reference to the poll to show people that many Americans are 9/11 truthers who scoff at the 9/11 Commission as a fraud and that demand a real 9/11 investigation.
New York reveals demands for new 9/11 probe may go to vote as Americans mark eighth anniversary, The Sunday Mail:
- The vote is likely to tear open old wounds as groups such as the "truthers ", including actor Charlie Sheen who believe Americans have never been told the truth about what really happened on 9/11, try to persuade New Yorkers to open a new probe that would reinvestigate the attacks.
Reading Iran by the Letter, The Washington Post:
- For instance, "truthers " who believe in a US government conspiracy to destroy the pentagon
- Rather, believers of this conspiracy theory (known as Sandy Hook “truthers ”) propose that the entire event might have been staged by Homeland Security and FEMA
- ... because I think that we JFK truthers may be able to use this film to our ...