adjective
1 formal Truthful.
as noun ‘Pilate's attitude to the veridical’- ‘According to Buddhist prama tenets, there are only two valid and authoritative means of veridical cognition.’
- ‘It is virtually impossible to find a veridical characterization of the secular left from anywhere on the right.’
- ‘This system cannot distinguish veridical from false memories, organize the retrieval output, or guide a retrieval search.’
- ‘We assume our senses are veridical (tell us the truth) out of pragmatism - if we thought they lied all the time we'd go mad.’
- ‘With both sense experience and mystical experience contradictions between reports prevent us from taking all of them to be veridical.’
- ‘I am willing to bet that any answer offered will be no more veridical than any offered before.’
reliable, dependable, trustworthy, authoritative, honest, faithful- 1.1Coinciding with reality.‘such memories are not necessarily veridical’
- ‘But there was no assumption that this was a veridical model of reality.’
- ‘Less aggressive children, on the other hand, may have been more veridical in their self-descriptions.’
- ‘This criterion presupposes that the protocol algorithm is veridical.’
- ‘They could also be after-images, hypnagogic imagery, or memory images with subliminal material that was not veridical.’
- ‘And this conflict does not disappear when we move from veridical perceptions of natural facts to veridical perceptions of social facts.’
- ‘Searle's ontology contains, implicitly, a distinction between veridical and illusory we-intentions.’
- ‘In fact, says Bayle, even granting that God is veridical, Descartes's proof of the external world itself is flawed.’
- ‘In mediumistic communications it was not unusual to find veridical cases with no links between the medium and living persons.’
- ‘His sense of self-preservation requires his conception to be veridical, and is threatened when it is disconfirmed.’
- ‘Cases of veridical and non-veridical perception can involve the same perceptual state, the same sensation.’
- ‘But with respect to conditions of satisfaction for veridical perceptions and true beliefs, it is the other way round.’
Origin
Mid 17th century from Latin veridicus (from verus ‘true’ + dicere ‘say’) + -al.
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