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Truth or verity is the property of being in accord with fact or reality. [1] In everyday language, it is typically ascribed to things that aim to represent reality or otherwise correspond to it, such as beliefs, propositions, and declarative sentences.
For temporal and aspectual operators, the definition of veridicality is somewhat more complex: For operators relative to instants of time: Let F be a temporal or aspectual operator, and t an instant of time. F is veridical iff for Fp to be true at time t, p must be true at a (contextually relevant) time t ′ ≤ t; otherwise F is nonveridical.
Veracity may refer to: Honesty, an ethical principle; Truth, a property of beliefs; Veracity, 2008, by Evacuate Chicago; Veracity, 2010, by Laura Bynum; Veracity, an early motorcar line by the Smith Automobile Company
Veritas Curat ("Truth Cures"): the Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, a medical school in Puducherry, India. Veritas Lux Mea ("Truth is my light"): in the logo of Seoul National University, Korea; Veritas, Unitas, Caritas ("Truth, Unity, Love"): Villanova University; Gratiae veritas naturae: Uppsala University ...
Ground truth is information that is known to be real or true, provided by direct observation and measurement (i.e. empirical evidence) as opposed to information provided by inference. Etymology [ edit ]
One of the classic definitions of "truth:" when the mind has the same form as reality, we think truth. Also rendered as adaequatio intellectus et rei. adaequatio intellectus nostri cum re: conformity of intellect to the fact: Phrase used in epistemology regarding the nature of understanding. adsum: I am here: i.e., "present!" or "here!"
According to Thomas Aquinas, faith is "an act of the intellect assenting to the truth at the command of the will". [ 9 ] Religion has a long tradition, since the ancient world, of analyzing divine questions using common human experiences such as sensation, reason, science, and history that do not rely on revelation—called Natural theology .
Scientific skepticism differs from philosophical skepticism, which questions humans' ability to claim any knowledge about the nature of the world and how they perceive it, and the similar but distinct methodological skepticism, which is a systematic process of being skeptical about (or doubting) the truth of one's beliefs.