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ver·i·si·mil·i·tude (vĕr'ə-sĭ-mĭl'ĭ-tūd', -tyūd')  |
[Latin vērīsimilitūdō, from vērīsimilis, verisimilar. See verisimilar.]
verisimilitudinous ver'i·si·mil'i·tu'di·nous (-tūd'n-əs, -tyūd'-) adj.| Thesaurus: verisimilitude |
noun
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Definition: authenticity
Antonyms: falseness, impossibility
| Literary Dictionary: verisimilitude |
verisimilitude, the semblance of truth or reality in literary works; or the literary principle that requires a consistent illusion of truth to life. The term covers both the exclusion of improbabilities (as in realism and naturalism) and the careful disguising of improbabilities in non‐realistic works. As a critical principle, it originates in Aristotle's concept of mimesis or imitation of nature. It was invoked by French critics (as vraisemblance) to enforce the dramatic unities in the 17th and 18th centuries, on the grounds that changes of scene or time would break the illusion of truth to life for the audience.
Adjective: verisimilar.
| Philosophy Dictionary: verisimilitude |
The extent to which a hypothesis approaches the truth. The first attempt to define this notion, due to Popper, identifies this with the extent to which a theory captures the whole truth: a theory T will have more verisimilitude than a rival T just in case T implies more truths and fewer falsities than T. But the formal development of the notion has proved extremely tricky, especially as the verisimilitude of theories is apt to vary with variations in the language in which they are couched.
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| Wikipedia: Verisimilitude |
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Verisimilitude—or truthlikeness—in the philosophy of science is trying to articulate how a false theory could be closer to the truth than another false theory. This usage was mostly popularized by Karl Popper. He assumed that science was interested in the informative content of a theory because it had predictive power and thus was testable. By this logic, a theory that replaces a falsified theory is a better theory, though not necessarily a true theory. Even two true theories can have different verisimilitude, depending on how informative they are. For example, saying that "it will be raining on Thursday next week", if true, would be more truthlike than saying that "it will be raining on at least one day next week".
Popper's logical definition of Verisimilitude was independently shown inadequate by Pavel Tichý[1] and David Miller,[2] and the search for such a logical definition is still underway. A metrical approach to verisimilitude based on point-free geometry was proposed by Giangiacomo Gerla[3].
Verisimilitude can also relate to the lifelike quality of a piece of writing or narrative.
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| Translations: Verisimilitude |
Dansk (Danish)
n. - sandsynlighed
Nederlands (Dutch)
waarschijnlijkheid, schijn van waarheid
Français (French)
n. - vraisemblance
Deutsch (German)
n. - Wahrscheinlichkeit
Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - αληθοφάνεια, πιθανότητα
Italiano (Italian)
verosimiglianza
Português (Portuguese)
n. - verossimilhança (f), declaração (f) com aparência de verdade
Русский (Russian)
вероятность, правдоподобие, достоверность
Español (Spanish)
n. - verosimilitud
Svenska (Swedish)
n. - sannolikhet, sken av verklighet
中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
好象真实, 逼真, 似真
中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 好象真實, 逼真, 似真
한국어 (Korean)
n. - 있을 법함, 정말같이 보이기
日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 迫真性, 真実らしさ
العربيه (Arabic)
(الاسم) محاكاة للواقع
עברית (Hebrew)
n. - דמיון לאמת, היראות כאמת, מראה-אמת, דבר הנראה כאמת
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