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Verisimilitude vs Truthlikeness - What's the difference?

verisimilitude | truthlikeness |

As nouns the difference between verisimilitude and truthlikeness

is that verisimilitude is the property of seeming true, of resembling reality; resemblance to reality, realism while truthlikeness is resemblance to truth.

verisimilitude

English

(wikipedia verisimilitude)

Noun

(en noun)
  • The property of seeming true, of resembling reality; resemblance to reality, realism.
  • A statement which merely appears to be true.

    • Quotations

    * (English Citations of "verisimilitude")

    Related terms

    * verisimilitudinous * verisimilar * verisimilarity

    See also

    * probability

    External links

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    truthlikeness

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • Resemblance to truth.
  • *{{quote-journal, 2007, date=October 24, Jeffrey Alan Barrett, Approximate Truth and Descriptive Nesting, Erkenntnis, url=, doi=10.1007/s10670-007-9086-6, volume=68, issue=2, pages=
    • , passage=Rather than characterize scientific progress in terms of increasing truthlikeness , the proposal is to start with the pragmatic view that inquiry involves the elimination error, then to use this understanding of inquiry to characterize a local notion of approximate truth in terms of descriptive nesting relations between our current best physical theories and subsequent theories. }}