How To Use Veridical In A Sentence

  • His sense of self-preservation requires his conception to be veridical, and is threatened when it is disconfirmed.
  • In fact, says Bayle, even granting that God is veridical, Descartes's proof of the external world itself is flawed.
  • The hard zinc plate, the surgicality of the etching needle and processes involving machines resist any illusion of a veridical access to the world or one's own emotions.
  • This system cannot distinguish veridical from false memories, organize the retrieval output, or guide a retrieval search.
  • Why should doubt about the veridical or truth-affirming possibilities of interpretation be so widespread in the twentieth century?
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  • This led to fortune-telling, veridical verifiable visions, conversations with the dead, and other paranormal phenomena. God is Not a Christian, Nor a Jew, Muslim, Hindu …
  • In the case of perception, what makes it possible to seem to see or hear what is not there is that one's experience may in various ways be inaccurate, nonveridical, subject to illusion, or hallucinatory.
  • These reports are likely not always well received, hence a comically exhaustive signing and initialing of paperwork to relieve Veridical of all blame. Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat
  • The standards of precision and veridicality are set by the needs of the problem to be solved, rather than existing as free-standing requirements of ever-greater precision. Pragmatic inquiry
  • It's up to the reader to decide how much veridicality they want out of the various facets of the stories they read. MIND MELD: Scientific Accuracy in Stories
  • But, O our lord the Imam, 'tis my wish first of all things to look upon her and see if she be pure or otherwise; and, as regarding her singular comeliness, my convicion is that thy word sufficeth and thine avouchment is veridical. Arabian nights. English
  • 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. Petty Injuries
  • Kim, H. and R. Cabeza, Trusting our memories: dissociating the neural correlates of confidence in veridical versus illusory memories. Srinivasan Pillay: Overcoming Parental Guilt: Perspectives From Brain Biology
  • Given an experience ” either one we actually have, or a hypothetical one ” we at least sometimes have intuitions about whether the experience is accurate (“veridical”) or inaccurate (“falsidical”). The Contents of Perception
  • Suppose we now add the following assumption: If two experiences have intentional contents which differ in their veridicality conditions, then this is not just a respect in which these mental events differ, it is also amounts to a difference in their mental kinds. Petty Injuries
  • If E* is a hallucination it will not have an intentional content with a demonstrative element that successfully refers to O, so it will not have an intentional content with the same veridicality conditions as E. Petty Injuries
  • veridical" -- the fault lying in the erroneous symbolic interpretation of the medium. The Problems of Psychical Research Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal
  • This criterion presupposes that the protocol algorithm is veridical.
  • Since this naïve realist account of phenomenal character cannot be applied to hallucination, those who propose it are committed to the claim that the kind of phenomenally conscious episode that occurs when one veridically perceives the world does not occur when one is hallucinating. Petty Injuries
  • It is virtually impossible to find a veridical characterization of the secular left from anywhere on the right.
  • Cases of veridical and non-veridical perception can involve the same perceptual state, the same sensation.
  • This factive mental state can only obtain when one is veridically perceiving the world, and it cannot obtain when one is hallucinating. Petty Injuries
  • 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. Warranted Christian Belief
  • Hinton argued that we should understand a statement about how things sensorily appear to a subject to be equivalent to a disjunctive statement that either one is veridically perceiving such and such or one is suffering an illusion (or hallucination); and such statements are not to be regarded as making a report about a distinctive mental event or state that is common to these disjoint situations. Petty Injuries
  • On this view, a particular experience E that is a veridical perception of a particular mind-independent object O will have an intentional content with a demonstrative element that successfully refers to O, and a distinct particular experience E* will have an intentional content with the same veridicality conditions only if its intentional content contains a demonstrative element that also refers to O. Petty Injuries
  • 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.
  • 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. Petty Injuries
  • What I retain from my MOD experience -- greatly reinforced by much that I have since read -- is that the 'phenomenon' is veridical and important Alejandro Rojas: UK UFO Files Show High Level Officials Were Concerned
  • And this conflict does not disappear when we move from veridical perceptions of natural facts to veridical perceptions of social facts.
  • perceptual error...has a surprising resemblance to veridical perception
  • 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. 'Ernest Gellner: An Intellectual Biography'
  • So it is worth considering how politics influences the course of science and how these influences affect the rationality or veridicality of the enterprise. Politics and science
  • I am willing to bet that any answer offered will be no more veridical than any offered before.
  • May be they are veridical observations of some enormous rare ape mistaken for an ˜ape - man™ or may be just erroneous observations of sociopaths in Yak coats? Semantic Challenges to Realism
  • Less aggressive children, on the other hand, may have been more veridical in their self-descriptions.
  • Phenomenological description is concerned with those aspects of the noema that remain the same irrespective of whether the experience in question is veridical or not. Edmund Husserl
  • But with respect to conditions of satisfaction for veridical perceptions and true beliefs, it is the other way round.
  • Husserl's notion of noema (hence his notion of intentionality) is most fundamentally rooted, not in reflections on the logical features of language, but in a contrast between the object of an intentional act, and the object ˜as intended™ (the way in which it is intended), and in the idea that a structure would remain to perceptual experience, even if it were radically non-veridical. Consciousness and Intentionality
  • With both sense experience and mystical experience contradictions between reports prevent us from taking all of them to be veridical.
  • It is an item of faith for philosophers of science that the scientific enterprise is truth-enhancing, in this sense: the community of researchers follows a set of institutionally embodied processes that are well designed to enhancing the comprehensiveness and veridicality of our theories and weeding out the false theories. Scientific misconduct as a principal-agent problem
  • According to Buddhist prama tenets, there are only two valid and authoritative means of veridical cognition.
  • According to sense-datum theorists, however, we are rarely, if ever, aware of this indirection in ordinary (veridical) exteroception. Pain
  • But there was no assumption that this was a veridical model of reality.
  • Something similar goes with regard to the singularity of a hallucinatory experience's noema: if such an experience were veridical, it would, in virtue of its noema, represent a particular perceptual object in all relevant possible worlds (see Section 3 above). Edmund Husserl
  • They could also be after-images, hypnagogic imagery, or memory images with subliminal material that was not veridical.
  • I am someone to whom the question of veridicality is vital and who sees the trumpeting of "consensus" as though that were proof of anything as in itself an objection to AGW. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
  • It is a land of sourdoughs and cheechacos - the first, the veridical Alaskans, who sport gruff beards, wear carhartts, and fed the yeast in their dough (hence their names) straight since the gold rush of 1907.
  • They could also be after-images, hypnagogic imagery, or memory images with subliminal material that was not veridical.
  • Searle's ontology contains, implicitly, a distinction between veridical and illusory we-intentions.
  • The victim is willing and able to provide veridical testimony.
  • One route to this view proceeds through the claims that a veridical perception of the world is a perceptual state with an intentional content containing demonstrative elements that refer to the mind-independent items in the environment that are perceived, and that truth-evaluable intentional contents with demonstrative elements that successfully refer are object-dependent. Petty Injuries
  • 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.
  • For since each such hallucination will be introspectively indiscriminible from the same kind of veridical perception, there will be no grounds for saying that these hallucinations have different phenomenal characters. Petty Injuries

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