truthlike

Science is probably better described as giving us truthlike, not true.

Analogy, How Scientifically Powerful is It? 2006

Z+, but they are deemed equally truthlike by min-max-average.

Truthlikeness Oddie, Graham 2007

This quantitative version (call it min-max-average) of Hilpinen's account renders all propositions comparable for truthlikeness, and some falsehoods it deems more truthlike than some truths.

Truthlikeness Oddie, Graham 2007

Considerations of both continuity and likeness suggest that A+ should be much more truthlike than

Truthlikeness Oddie, Graham 2007

A is highly truthlike, and Z highly untruthlike and min-max-average agrees.

Truthlikeness Oddie, Graham 2007

At times monstrous images are created, but the setting and the whole picture are so truthlike and filled with details so delicate, so unexpectedly, but so artistically consistent, that the dreamer, were he an artist like Pushkin or Turgenev even, could never have invented them in the waking state.

Crime and Punishment 2002

That Mr. Miller thinks that my statement that "tests could never in principle provide them [scientists] with any good reasons for thinking their hypotheses true" — I might have added, "or truthlike" — is "quite beside the point" seems to me to be of a piece with the fanaticism that leads him to characterize induction as a deliberate perversion of the truth, as "intellectual fraud."

The Karl Popper Problem Miller, David 1983

At times monstrous images are created, but the setting and the whole picture are so truthlike and filled with details so delicate, so unexpected, but so artistically consistent, that the dreamer, were he an artist like Pushkin or Turgenev even, could never have invented them in the waking state.

Chapter V. Part I 1917

Her manner was so truthlike that Sir George was almost convinced.

Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall Charles Major 1884

He had the fullest opportunities of getting correct information: and his version of the story is so truthlike, that I should have accepted it without hesitation but for the hanging for forging a frank.

Notes and Queries, Number 193, July 9, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc Various 1852