verisimilitude

  • 31verisimilitude —   n. appearance of being true.    ♦ verisimilar, a …

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  • 32verisimilitude — n. 1 the appearance or semblance of being true or real. 2 a statement etc. that seems true. Derivatives: verisimilar adj. Etymology: L verisimilitudo f. verisimilis probable f. veri genit. of verus true + similis like …

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  • 33truth — truth, veracity, verity, verisimilitude are comparable when they mean the quality or property of keeping close to the facts or to things as they are and avoiding such distortions as lies, fictions, or misrepresentations. Truth is a general term… …

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  • 34Karl Popper — Infobox Philosopher region = Western Philosophy era = 20th century philosophy color = #B0C4DE name = Sir Karl Raimund Popper CH FRS FBA birth = 28 July 1902 Vienna, Austria death = death date and age|df=yes|1994|9|17|1902|7|28 London, England… …

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  • 35Live action role-playing game — A live action role playing game (LARP) is a form of role playing game where the participants physically act out their characters actions. The first LARPs were run in the late 1970s, inspired by role playing games and genre fiction. The activity… …

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  • 36False document — A false document is a literary technique employed to create verisimilitude in a work of fiction. By inventing and inserting documents that appear to be factual, an author tries to create a sense of authenticity beyond the normal and expected… …

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  • 37Professional wrestling — For the Olympic sport, see Wrestling. For other uses, see Professional wrestling (disambiguation). Professional wrestling A professional wrestling match. Two wrestlers grapple in a wrestling ring while a referee (in white, right) looks on …

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  • 38Shell script — This article is about scripting in UNIX like systems. For batch programming in DOS, OS/2 and Windows, see Batch file. For batch programming in Windows PowerShell shell, see Windows PowerShell#Scripting. A shell script is a script written for the… …

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  • 39Regress argument — The regress argument (also known as the diallelus (Latin < Greek di allelon through or by means of one another )) is a problem in epistemology and, in general, a problem in any situation where a statement has to be justified.[1][2][3]… …

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  • 40Playwright — A playwright, also called a dramatist, is a person who writes plays. The term is not a variant spelling of playwrite , but something quite distinct: the word wright is an archaic English term for a craftsman or builder (as in a wheelwright or… …

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