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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 ...
Epistemology is the study of knowledge and its acquisition. Alethiology is specifically concerned with the nature of truth, which is only one of the areas studied by epistemologists. [citation needed] The term alethiology is rare.
Aletheia or Alethia (/ æ l ɪ ˈ θ aɪ. ə /; [1] Ancient Greek: ἀλήθεια) is truth or disclosure in philosophy.Originating in Ancient Greek philosophy, the term was explicitly used for the first time in the history of philosophy by Parmenides in his poem On Nature, in which he contrasts it with doxa (opinion).
The Seven Virtues are a set of moral principles that include chastity, temperance, charity, diligence, patience, kindness, and humility.
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
Negation is veridical, though of opposite polarity, sometimes called antiveridical: "Paul didn't see a snake" asserts that the statement "Paul saw a snake" is false.In English, non-indicative moods or irrealis moods are frequently used in a nonveridical sense: "Paul may have seen a snake" and "Paul would have seen a snake" do not assert that Paul actually saw a snake and the second implies ...
Antithesis (pl.: antitheses; Greek for "setting opposite", from ἀντι-"against" and θέσις "placing") is used in writing or speech either as a proposition that contrasts with or reverses some previously mentioned proposition, or when two opposites are introduced together for contrasting effect.
An antonym is one of a pair of words with opposite meanings. Each word in the pair is the antithesis of the other. A word may have more than one antonym. There are three categories of antonyms identified by the nature of the relationship between the opposed meanings.