Verisimilitude
(from Latin
verisimilitudo, from
verus true +
similitudo similitude) is the state or quality of something that exhibits the
appearance of
truth or
reality.
In
literature and
theatre, the term denotes the extent to which a work of
fiction exhibits
realism or
authenticity, or otherwise
conforms to our sense of
reality. A work with a high degree of verisimilitude means that the work is very realistic and believable; works of this nature are often said to be "true to life".
In theatre, verisimilitude refers to a neoclassic idea of reality (realism), morality, and universality. Universality means that certain truths are common to all people. Something that is true of one person is true of all.
Verisimilitude in philosophy of science
The term
verisimilitude -- or
truthlikeness -- has also served the purpose, in the philosophy of science, of trying to articulate how a false theory could be closer to the truth than another false theory. This usage was mostly popularized by
Sir Karl Popper. His logical definition of Verisimilitude was independently shown inadequate by
Pavel Tichı[1] and
David Miller,
[2] and the search for such a logical definition is still underway.
References
1.
^ Pavel Tichı: On Popper's definitions of verisimilitude.
The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 25:2 (June 1974), 155–160.
2.
^ David Miller: Popper's Qualitative Theory of Verisimilitude.
The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 25:2 (June 1974), 166–177.
For other uses, see Phenomena (disambiguation).
A phenomenon (Greek: φαινόμενoν, pl. phenomena φαινόμενα) is any occurrence that is observable.
..... Click the link for more information. truth extends from honesty, good faith, and sincerity in general, to agreement with fact or reality in particular.[1] The term has no single definition about which the majority of professional philosophers and scholars agree.
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Real may refer to:
- Reality, something that exists
- Real (galley), the flagship of Don Juan de Austria in the Battle of Lepanto in 1571
- Real (bicycle manufacturer), a bicycle manufacturer
- Real
..... Click the link for more information. Literature literally "acquaintance with letters" (from Latin littera letter) as in the first sense given in the Oxford English Dictionary, or works of art, which in Western culture are mainly prose, both fiction and non-fiction, drama and poetry.
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Theatre (or theater, see spelling differences) (from French "théâtre", from Greek "theatron", θέατρον, meaning "place of seeing") is the branch of the performing arts defined as simply as what "occurs when one or more
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Fiction is the telling of stories which are not entirely based upon facts. More specifically, fiction is an imaginative form of narrative, one of the four basic rhetorical modes.
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Realism in the visual arts and literature is the depiction of subjects as they appear in everyday life, without embellishment or interpretation. The term is also used to describe works of art which, in revealing a truth, may emphasize the ugly or sordid.
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Authenticity refers to the truthfulness of origins, attributions, commitments, sincerity, devotion, and intentions.
Authenticity or
Authentic may refer to:
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Karl Raimund Popper, CH, FRS, FBA (July 28, 1902 – September 17, 1994) was an Austrian and British[1] philosopher and a professor at the London School of Economics.
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Pavel Tichı (18 February 1936 Brno, Czechoslovakia – 26 October 1994 Dunedin, New Zealand) was a Czech logician, philosopher and mathematician. He worked in the field of intensional logic and was a founder of Transparent Intensional Logic, an original theory of logical
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David W. Miller (born 19 August 1942) is a philosopher and prominent exponent of critical rationalism. He teaches in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Warwick in Coventry, UK.
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