But will then have to give an oblique account of the notion of veridicality. From Wordnik.com. [Representational Theories of Consciousness] Reference
Second, there is a parallel point about veridicality that applies to narratives and theories as much as to maps. From Wordnik.com. [Maps, narratives, and abstraction] Reference
It's up to the reader to decide how much veridicality they want out of the various facets of the stories they read. From Wordnik.com. [MIND MELD: Scientific Accuracy in Stories] Reference
This simple empiricist epistemology underwrites the strongest claims for veridicality and justification for the social sciences. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-09-01] Reference
Thus, even if the structure of reward and punishment is an incentive not to cheat, it does not guarantee the veridicality of every research report. From Wordnik.com. [The Social Dimensions of Scientific Knowledge] Reference
So it is worth considering how politics influences the course of science and how these influences affect the rationality or veridicality of the enterprise. From Wordnik.com. [Politics and science] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-05-01] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
While doing his very best to give his tale all possible veridicality, he says, he suddenly realized he was perhaps describing, not so much the event itself, as an engraving of it, seen subsequently. From Wordnik.com. [Claude Simon - Nobel Lecture] Reference
This hints at both the source of our intuitions about the completeness and veridicality of our visual representation of the world, and the sorts of errors that our commonsense intuitions can lead to. From Wordnik.com. [I Didn't Even Notice That You Had a New Head] Reference
Conceivably someone might balk at the inference from veridicality/nonveridicality to representational content, regarding the notion of representation as requiring more than mere veridicality conditions. From Wordnik.com. [Representational Theories of Consciousness] Reference
Another consideration that has been brought to bear on the debate about how objects are represented in experience is the predictions that the proposals make about the accuracy (veridicality or falsidicality) of experiences. From Wordnik.com. [The Contents of Perception] Reference
Now the representationalist argues that the experience's veridicality condition, i.e., there being a green blob where there seems to Bertie to be one, seems to exhaust not only its representational content but its qualitative content. From Wordnik.com. [Representational Theories of Consciousness] Reference
The representation of appearance properties is supposed to explain the phenomenal sameness of certain experiences with inverted qualia; whereas the representation of color properties is supposed to underlie intuitions about the veridicality of the experiences. From Wordnik.com. [The Contents of Perception] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Petty Injuries] Reference
Three sorts of considerations are typically invoked to decide between these: (i) which best reflect intuitions about veridicality of experiences; (ii) which best reflect distinctions to which experiences are sensitive; (iii) which contents best reflect the phenomenology of experience. From Wordnik.com. [The Contents of Perception] Reference
Note that, if one grants the phenomenological claims of the mind-emergentist while denying their veridicality, one is doing something very different from twentieth-century scientists who debunked vitalist and strong emergentist views about life by uncovering life's physico-chemical basis. From Wordnik.com. [Emergent Properties] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific misconduct as a principal-agent problem] Reference
And if one says what the intentional content of a state of mind is, one says much or perhaps all of what conditions must be met if it is to be satisfied ” what its conditions of truth, or veridicality, or fulfillment, are. From Wordnik.com. [Consciousness and Intentionality] Reference
And veridicality, 140. From Wordnik.com. [Planned Short-Term Treatment] Reference
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