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truthlikeness

truthlikeness noun: resemblance to truth.

Noun

truthlikeness (uncountable)

  1. Resemblance to truth.
    • Rather than characterize scientific progress in terms of increasing truthlikeness, the proposal is to start with the pragmatic view that inquiry involves the elimination error, then to use this understanding of inquiry to characterize a local notion of approximate truth in terms of descriptive...2007 October 24, Jeffrey Alan Barrett, “Approximate Truth and Descriptive Nesting”, in Erkenntnis, volume 68, number 2, →DOI

Origin of truthlikeness

From truthlike + -ness.

Questions about truthlikeness

What does truthlikeness mean?
Truthlikeness means resemblance to truth.
What part of speech is truthlikeness?
Truthlikeness is a noun.

Words near truthlikeness in the dictionary

  1. truthisms
  2. truthless
  3. truthlessly
  4. truthlessness
  5. truthlike
  6. truthlikeness
  7. truthly
  8. truthmaker
  9. truthmakers
  10. truthmaking
  11. truthness

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