veridical
Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- adjective Truthful; veracious.
- adjective Coinciding with future events or apparently unknowable present realities.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- adjective Truth-telling; veracious; truthful.
- adjective True; being what it purports to be.
Examples
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A problem with this response is that it relies on characterising the kind of psychological effect involved in hallucination in terms of what it is not, namely a veridical perception, and it is plausible to demand that it should be possible to provide some positive account of the kind of psychological effect involved when one hallucinates.
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His suggestion is that the disjunctivist should explain such experiences not by direct appeal to the idea of veridical perception of the impossible scene, but rather by explaining how an experience with each of the constituent elements is indiscriminible in that respect from a perception of that element.
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The argument seems to proceed from two premises: (1) all the great religions are "veridical," and (2) none of them is more veridical than the others.
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Still, this book is not official in any sense and I am responsible for what it says, although I hope that Gellner's relations find its portrait veridical.
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In nonstandard cases like in hallucinations and illusions, phenomenologically the same kinds of states are brought about by different causal routes, and the qualitative differentiation of one's experiential state in such non-veridical cases is the result of deviant causal influences.
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At the moment the Omega Point is reached, all fallacies which are logically possible to refute will have been refuted, and all veridical knowledge which is logically possible to be known will be accepted.
Note
The word 'veridical' comes from Latin roots meaning 'true' and 'to say'.
