Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Truthful; veracious.
- adjective Coinciding with future events or apparently unknowable present realities.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Truth-telling; veracious; truthful.
- True; being what it purports to be.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Truth-telling; truthful; veracious.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
True . - adjective Pertaining to an
experience ,perception , orinterpretation thataccurately representsreality ; as opposed toimaginative ,unsubstantiated ,illusory , ordelusory .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective coinciding with reality
Etymologies
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Examples
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His suggestion is that the disjunctivist should explain such experiences not by direct appeal to the idea of veridical perception of the impossible scene, but rather by explaining how an experience with each of the constituent elements is indiscriminible in that respect from a perception of that element.
Petty Injuries 2009
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A problem with this response is that it relies on characterising the kind of psychological effect involved in hallucination in terms of what it is not, namely a veridical perception, and it is plausible to demand that it should be possible to provide some positive account of the kind of psychological effect involved when one hallucinates.
Petty Injuries 2009
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"veridical" -- the fault lying in the erroneous symbolic interpretation of the medium.
The Problems of Psychical Research Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal Hereward Carrington 1919
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For since each such hallucination will be introspectively indiscriminible from the same kind of veridical perception, there will be no grounds for saying that these hallucinations have different phenomenal characters.
Petty Injuries 2009
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The argument seems to proceed from two premises: (1) all the great religions are "veridical," and (2) none of them is more veridical than the others.
Warranted Christian Belief 1932- 2000
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What I retain from my MOD experience -- greatly reinforced by much that I have since read -- is that the 'phenomenon' is veridical and important
Alejandro Rojas: UK UFO Files Show High Level Officials Were Concerned Alejandro Rojas 2011
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What I retain from my MOD experience -- greatly reinforced by much that I have since read -- is that the 'phenomenon' is veridical and important
Alejandro Rojas: UK UFO Files Show High Level Officials Were Concerned Alejandro Rojas 2011
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Kim, H. and R. Cabeza, Trusting our memories: dissociating the neural correlates of confidence in veridical versus illusory memories.
Srinivasan Pillay: Overcoming Parental Guilt: Perspectives From Brain Biology 2010
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Still, this book is not official in any sense and I am responsible for what it says, although I hope that Gellner's relations find its portrait veridical.
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This led to fortune-telling, veridical verifiable visions, conversations with the dead, and other paranormal phenomena.
God is Not a Christian, Nor a Jew, Muslim, Hindu … Carlton Pearson 2010
JimPeters commented on the word veridical
The first example is useless without full quote:
"Yet, it will be observed, the message was, in its inception, wholly "veridical" — the fault lying in the erroneous symbolic interpretation of the medium."
April 22, 2011