veridical
Speech parts
1. veridical - Adjective
2. veridical - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
Truth-telling; truthful; veracious.
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Examples
Lying, as we all know, does not take place only in war-time. Man, it has been said, is not "a veridical animal," but his habit of lying is not nearly so extraordinary as his amazing readiness to believe. It is, indeed, because of human credulity that lies flourish.
perceptual error...has a surprising resemblance to veridical perception
Analysis Hilbert's paradox is a veridical paradox : it leads to a counter-intuitive result that is provably true.
It is worth noting, however, that the grounds necessary to ensure validity to the proposed theory's veridical nature were not scientific, but just as philosophical as those traditions espoused by Thales and Anaximander.
Quine's classification seeAlso W. V. Quine (1962) distinguished between three classes of paradoxes: citation * A veridical paradox produces a result that appears absurd but is demonstrated to be true nevertheless.
Hoffman wondered if evolution truly favored veridical minds, so he and his graduate students created computer models of natural selection that included accurate perceptions of reality as a variable.