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Veracity vs Verifiability - What's the difference?

veracity | verifiability |

As nouns the difference between veracity and verifiability

is that veracity is (uncountable) truthfulness while verifiability is the state or property of being capable of being verified; confirmability.

veracity

English

Noun

  • (uncountable) Truthfulness
  • (countable) Something that is true
  • (uncountable) Accuracy or precision
  • act of being exact and accurate.
  • correctness and carefulness in one's plan of action.

    • Synonyms

    * See also

    Related terms

    * veracious * verifiable * verification * verify * veritable * verity

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    verifiability

    English

    Noun

    (verifiabilities)
  • The state or property of being capable of being verified; confirmability.

    • Quotations

    {{timeline, 1800s=1887, 1900s=1973, 2000s=2004}} *1887 , J. M. Rigg, "The Place of Hypothesis in Experimental Science," Mind , vol. 12, no. 48, p. 559, *:Mill distinguished between hypotheses which rest on mere analogy and such as are capable of "being ultimately brought to the test of actual induction," claiming for the latter a verifiability which he denied to the former. *1973 , James C. McKeown, "Comparative Application of Market and Cost Based Accounting Models," Journal of Accounting Research , vol. 11, no. 1, p. 99, *:The verifiabilities of the other measurement systems were very similar. *2004 , Mark Sanders, "Truths and Contestation: Literature in Law," Law and Literature , vol. 16, no. 3, p. 481, *:The issues of veracity and verifiability raised by testimony in trials emerge with a vengeance in the context of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

    Derived terms

    * verifiability principle