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Veridicality vs Veracity - What's the difference?

veridicality | veracity |

As nouns the difference between veridicality and veracity

is that veridicality is truth while veracity is truthfulness.

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.

    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