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What (who) is verisimilitude - definition

RESEMBLANCE TO REALITY

Truthlikeness; Verisimilitudes; Verisimil

verisimilitude

n.

Likelihood, probability, appearance of truth.

Verisimilitude

·noun The quality or state of being verisimilar; the appearance of truth; probability; likelihood.

verisimilitude

[?v?r?s?'m?l?tju:d]

¦ noun the appearance of being true or real.

Derivatives

verisimilar adjective

Origin

C17: from L. verisimilitudo, from verisimilis 'probable', from veri (genitive of verus 'true') + similis 'like'.

Wikipedia

Verisimilitude

In philosophy, verisimilitude (or truthlikeness) is the notion that some propositions are closer to being true than other propositions. The problem of verisimilitude is the problem of articulating what it takes for one false theory to be closer to the truth than another false theory.

This problem was central to the philosophy of Karl Popper, largely because Popper was among the first to affirm that truth is the aim of scientific inquiry while acknowledging that most of the greatest scientific theories in the history of science are, strictly speaking, false. If this long string of purportedly false theories is to constitute progress with respect to the goal of truth, then it must be at least possible for one false theory to be closer to the truth than others.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verisimilitude

Examples of use of verisimilitude

1. An illusion like this depends on absolute verisimilitude.

2. Presumably The Long Walk To Finchley has some pretensions to verisimilitude.

3. One reads books about football hooligans and sees films without expecting much in the way of truth or verisimilitude.

4. Not a Hollywood–style blockbuster, but their very own lowlife hustles brought to the screen with all the verisimilitude of real goons playing real goons.

5. They do, after all, conform to the verisimilitude of the best Dutch still life or French trompe l‘oeil, while suggesting that our culture has become so debased that shipping boxes are the logical counterpart of the past‘s noble subjects.