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	Verisimilitude (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Truthlikeness Discussion of notion of verisimilitude, closeness to truth; by Graham Oddie.
		Verisimilitude Humor, rants, and commentary on life following the motto "Sometimes the Truth Hurts".
		Truthlikeness Discussion of notion of verisimilitude, closeness to truth; from the Stanford Encyclopedia by Graham Oddie.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Verisimilitude.html (114 words)

	On the Neglect of Verisimilitude and Critical Multiplism
		The key issue in any attempt to assess the verisimilitude of advertising experiments is whether the experimental procedures successfully reproduced, in the laboratory, the distinguishing characteristics of the advertising phenomenon as found in the world outside.
		Here again verisimilitude may not be a problem for scientists who conceive their task as the study of the responses of organisms to stimuli; for wherever they are and whatever they are doing, organisms are encountering stimuli to which they respond.
		A preliminary and very rough attempt to assess the overall verisimilitude of the accumulation of laboratory experiments on advertising was derived by creating a summed score based on the seven criteria and examining the distribution of this sum (Table 3).
	lsb.scu.edu /~emcquarrie/verisim.htm (12767 words)

	Karl Popper
		On the quantitative account, verisimilitude is defined by assigning quantities to contents, where the index of the content of a given theory is its logical improbability (given again that content and probability vary inversely).
		In this way, verisimilitude allowed Popper to mitigate what many saw as the pessimism of an anti-inductivist philosophy of science which held that most, if not all scientific theories are false, and that a true theory, even if discovered, could not be known to be such.
		Ultimately, the idea of verisimilitude is most important in cases where we know that we have to work with theories which are at best approximations—that is to say, theories of which we know that they cannot be true.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/popper (8225 words)

	Dictionary.com/Word of the Day: verisimilitude
		In an attempt to create verisimilitude, in addition to the usual vulgarities, the dialogue is full of street slang.
		Smith interviewed hundreds of people of different races and ages, somehow managing to internalize their expressions, anger and quirks enough to be able to portray them with astonishing verisimilitude.
		The old man's massive forehead, penetrating eyes and enormous beard lent verisimilitude to this unappealing portrait.
	dictionary.reference.com /wordoftheday/archive/2000/08/27.html (135 words)

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		The Scholastic definition is veritas est adaequatio rei et intellectus. Verisimilitude is a turn of discourse through which authors and readers seek adequate apprehension of truth in art such that authors can rely on readers accepting their narratives as possible.
		The verisimilitude in The Awakening arouses debate about social issues through its narrative about a woman who doesn’t exist, and exhibits how author and reader can agree to see things similarly and so approach the truth of how things actually are.
		In this way, the use of verisimilitude runs the risk of straining credulity through its portrayal of an abundance of descriptive detail that may go beyond a reader’s experience (hence, the document.) Novel moments are often considered self-contained.
	homepage.mac.com /dagzine/iblog/dagzine/C437963822/E1487433170/Media/norrisprosepctus.doc (6779 words)

	Josh Becker: Verisimilitude
		"Verisimilitude" means "the appearance of truth." Just because something seems to be true doesn’t necessarily mean that it is true.
		The is more verisimilitude and honest emotion in any 60 seconds of "A Night to Remember" than in James Cameron’s entire bloated, elephantine, 194 minute snooze-fest.
		I believe that verisimilitude can all be summed up in the look on the face of the captain of the Carpathian, the ship that is frantically rushing to get to the sinking Titanic and will not arrive in time under any circumstances.
	www.beckerfilms.com /verisimilitude.html (1767 words)

	Verisimilitude - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Credibility of a simulation-based virtual laboratory: an exploratory study of learner judgments of verisimilitude.
		Flem Snopes's knack for verisimilitude in Faulkner's Snopes trilogy.(Special Issue: William Faulkner) : An article from: The Mississippi Quarterly
		Verisimilitude: The "new look" in secondary education methods courses
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /verisimilitude.htm (97 words)

	Verisimilitude (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		We might also expect their closeness to the truth to be the same in either language, but this is not the case for Tichý’s definition of verisimilitude.
		Verisimilitude is relative to a particular set of questions and a formula for weighing the relative importance of those questions.
		What we have learnt from the problem of verisimilitude is that we cannot measure the progress of science in terms of a single measure, which we call absolute verisimilitude.
	philosophy.wisc.edu /forster/220/notes_10.html (3162 words)

	The Superhero Hype! Boards - "Realism" and "Verisimilitude"........
		Verisimilitude is just a way to give an explanation for certain things or to give an appearance of looking real.
		My point is "verisimilitude" may be used to describe some of the gadgets, but it in no way describes the movie.
		Verisimilitude means "having the appearance of being true or real".
	www.superherohype.com /forums/printthread.php?t=170588&pp=40 (3476 words)

	WebX Post #2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		The occurrences of cultural and generic verisimilitude are both very prominent in “The Matrix”, one of my favorite movies.
		Although the plot of “The Matrix” follows a “generation-x” man (Neo) working in the average office building (which can easily be related to), the applications of generic verisimilitude in the movie extends the plot to include the fact that Neo is a powerful hacker (which does not easily apply to many people in society).
		Ironically enough, the layering of generic verisimilitude upon cultural verisimilitude that creates the theme, also serves to support the idea that the reality that we think we know, is not the true reality.
	www.geocities.com /TimesSquare/Bunker/5385/webx2.html (386 words)

	Literary Terms and Definitions V (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		This manuscript includes one of only two copies of the poem, "The Dream of the Rood." The other surviving copy of this poem is a set of partial excerpts from the work that appears carved in runes on the Ruthwell Cross near Dumfries in southern Scotland.
		VERISIMILITUDE: The sense that what one reads is "real," or at least realistic and believable.
		For instance, the reader possesses a sense of verisimilitude when reading a story in which a character cuts his finger, and the finger bleeds.
	web.cn.edu /kwheeler/lit_terms_V.html (3498 words)

	3DActionPlanet - A Member of The GameSpy Network
		Verisimilitude is a real word; I didn't make it up.
		And it sort of is. Both realism and verisimilitude maintain standards in presentation.
		Verisimilitude, going back to the definition, seeks to create the quality of seeming to true.
	www.3dactionplanet.com /features/editorials/verisimilitude (395 words)

	Poetics - Volume 9, Issue 2
		Verisimilitude is the word used to capture any story's "believability." We all know stories in any medium that step over the line of believability.
		Verisimilitude hovers at first like a stern task master, but it is actually quite flexible.
		We can enjoy stories in each of these media (and others), but in a day that simply assumes the visual is more realistic, the deep verisimilitude of novels and short stories certainly deserves a renewed voice.
	www.credenda.org /issues/9-2poetics.php (782 words)

	Popperian Ideas on Progress and Rationality in Science
		I may mention that my idea concerning the comparative verisimilitude of incongruent counterparts would have avoided this result if I had restricted the comparison to their empirical content, as understood in Science and Scepticism where it is equated with the class of the theory's singular predictive implications, or SPIs, as I call them.
		Popper's critics did not attach much importance to his concept of verisimilitude in its heyday; but after its debacle in 1974, news of which spread rapidly, some of them came to see it as the central plank of his philosophy of science, the whole system being brought down by its collapse.
		The short answer is that he used it to turn what many saw as a pessimistic philosophy, in which the truth is permanently hidden, into an optimistic philosophy in which we can know, or at least have reason to believe, that we are making progress with respect to truth.
	www.eeng.dcu.ie /~tkpw/tcr/volume-02/number-02/node1.html (3302 words)

	Define Verisimilitude : powered by In Dictionary (InDicitonary.com) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		See Verisimilar.] The quality or state of being verisimilar; the appearance of truth; probability; likelihood.
		[1913 Webster] Verisimilitude and opinion are an easy purchase; but true knowledge is dear and difficult.
		verisimilitude n : the appearance of truth; the quality of seeming to be true
	www.indictionary.com /define/Verisimilitude (209 words)

	[Writers-L] Verisimilitude
		The term for what an author tries to create is not reality, but verisimilitude.
		Samuel Taylor Coleridge said it about fantasy, but science fiction writers also frequently quote him--what we want to create in our readers is "a willing suspension of disbelief." Your readers have come to you to be entertained.
		Previously, horror stories had been primarily in the gothic mode, set long ago, far away, or both--or at the very least in some isolated area where the protagonists were trapped, and if they could simply escape the gothic center, they would escape the horror.
	www.simegen.com /pipermail/writers-l/2001-March/000230.html (807 words)

	CONTEXT: On Realism and Art by Roman Jakobson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		While in painting and in the other visual arts the illusion of an objective and absolute faithfulness to reality is conceivable, "natural" (in Plato's terminology), verisimilitude in a verbal expression or in a literary description obviously makes no sense whatever.
		But the perception of those of a more conservative persuasion continues to be determined by the old canons; they will accordingly interpret any deformation of these canons by a new movement as a rejection of the principle of verisimilitude, as a deviation from realism.
		Repin's teacher at the Academy, however, was appalled by the lack of realism in the painting, and he carefully itemized all the instances of Repin's distortion of verisimilitude by comparison with the academic canon which was for him the only guarantee of verisimilitude (i.e., from the standpoint of B2).
	www.centerforbookculture.org /context/no9/jakobson.html (2833 words)

	Belief Revision and Verisimilitude, Mark Ryan, Pierre-Yves Schobbens
		The Egli-Milner power-ordering is used to define verisimilitude orderings on theories from preference orderings on models.
		The effects of the definitions on constraints such as stopperedness and soundness are explored.
		Belief revision is defined in terms of both types of orderings, and conditions are given which make the two notions coincide.
	projecteuclid.org /Dienst/UI/1.0/Display/euclid.ndjfl/1040308826 (473 words)

	On Faith and Verisimilitude (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		I like the element of surprise and I like the idea of a reader being thrown off by a shattered stereotype.
		All this to say, my writing is a marriage of faith and verisimilitude.
		As a writer, I'm obligated to carefully investigate my world and my experiences and report back to you, the reader.
	www.jamesmentink.com /id15.html (684 words)

	Verisimilitude - Encyclopedia Dramatica
		One of the most puncturing forms which a dose of vast verisimilitude can attain.
		unfunny, therefore this article is unfunny, in order to create an air of verisimilitude.
		This page was last modified 19:23, 24 Jul 2005.
	www.encyclopediadramatica.com /index.php/Verisimilitude (56 words)

	Verisimilitude and the Scientific Strategy of Economic Theory
		A definition of "empirical verisimilitude" is defended as a plausible interpretation of the epistemic preferences of researchers.
		Some salient differences between the scientific strategies of physics and of economics are derived from the comparison of the relative costs associated with each strategy.
		The classical discussion about the "realism of assumptions" in economics is also considered under the light of the concept of "empirical verisimilitude".
	ideas.repec.org /a/taf/jecmet/v6y1999i3p331-49.html (182 words)

	Poetic Techniques Used by Dante to Establish Verisimilitude in the Commedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Dante’s ability to achieve verisimilitude through used of these techniques establishes an important foundation for the Commedia.
		This is a credit to Dante for his ability to create verisimilitude of senses using descriptive language.
		This obtained verisimilitude provides for a solid foundation any figurative meanings drawn from the text.
	www2.bc.edu /%7Eherboldn/commediavers.html (1745 words)

	Boing Boing: Geek verisimilitude firm provides on-set scientists for film production
		Disney hired a Chemistry grad student to sit around on-set for its remake of Flubber, who was in charge of ensuring that all the chemistry crud on the flboards and in the script made some kind of nominal sense.
		Now there's a consultancy outfit in Hollywood that will provide real scientists and mathematicians to your set and your script-writers to make sure that geek verisimilitude is maintained.
		Hollywood Math and Science Film Consulting will ensure that the technical details and jargon in your script sound believable, whether they be mathematical, scientific, or medical.
	www.boingboing.net /2005/05/05/geek_verisimilitude_.html (290 words)

	Siris: On "More on Verisimilitude"
		If, however, you find me making a clear factual error, let me know; blogging is a great way to get rid of misconceptions.
		A response to my post on verisimilitude has been put up at Studi Galileiani.
		It should be said incidentally, that I don't really take the question-begging charge seriously here; my argument was not primarily to establish historical realism but to argue that the considerations brought against it need not worry the historical realist (but that said, Newall has missed the point of my argument, which I discuss below).
	branemrys.blogspot.com /2005/02/on-more-on-verisimilitude.html (1213 words)

	girtby.net » Verisimilitude (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		The article goes on to talk about patent law reform in general, but it starts by citing TechWeb converage of a patent spat between Microsoft and Apple over […]
		Bruce Schneier almost always says sensible things on the subject of security and in response to the London bombings he doesn’t disappoint: We need to resist the urge to react against the particulars of this particular terrorist plot, and to keep focused on the terrorists’ goals.
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	girtby.net /archives/category/verisimilitude (1092 words)

	Re: Verisimilitude vs. the Wolfspawns
		Peter Wright Verisimilitude vs. the Wolfspawns
		Jenny Chase Verisimilitude vs. the Wolfspawns
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	www.talkaboutpeople.com /group/alt.fan.grrm/messages/11195.html (213 words)

	Verisimilitude vs Reality - The Superhero Hype! Boards (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Personally, I am against Grounding Superheroes in reality and think that when you properly apply verisimilitude, it make the whole premise of "realism" pointless.
		In contrast, I don't think the other extreme of "copy and pasting" a comic to film is the best idea either.
		To conclude I'd say that verisimilitude suits me fine but it depends where you put your realism.....
	www.superherohype.com /forums/showthread.php?t=159776 (684 words)

	verisimilitud verisimilitude (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
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	Graham Oddie's vita
		"Verisimilitude by power relations" British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 41: 129-35, (1990).
		"Verisimilitude reviewed" The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 32: 237-65, (1981).
		"Verisimilitude and distance in logical space" in Acta Philosophica Fennica 30: 2-4 (1978), 227-242.
	spot.colorado.edu /~oddie/AboutGraham.html (995 words)

	The 20' By 20' Room: The Value of Verisimilitude (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		You could also give the PC an unrelated Scooby snack for being outside: maybe they hear something that happens outside that people in the party miss out on.
		Posted by: Ginger Stampley at May 11, 2005 02:59 PM Oh, and I should add that as a matter of principle, "I don't want to break verisimilitude" also carries some weight in my GM decisions.
		Posted by: Neel Krishnaswami at May 18, 2005 07:05 PM Thank you, "verisimilitude" is one of my favorite words.
	www.20by20room.com /2005/05/the_value_of_ve.html (3219 words)

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