Truth and Error
402. Truth and Error
See also 250. LOGIC .
- alethiology
- the branch of logic dealing with truth and error. —alethiologist , n. —alethiological, adj.
- errancy
- 1. the condition of being in error.
- 2. the tendency to be in error or the capacity for being in error; fallibility.
- falsism
- anything that is patently false or untrue; a fallacy.
- Plinyism
- an assertion of doubtful truth or accuracy, as with some statements in Pliny’s Natural History.
- theopneusty
- the force or process of divine inspiration; the power by which the Holy Spirit reveals truth to men. —theopneustic, theopneusted , adj.
- truism
- a self-evident, obvious truth. —truistic, truistical , adj.
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