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Veridical (adj) means describing an experience or view of something that truly matches reality.

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Describing an experience or view of something that truly matches reality.

"Few believe that all claimed religious experiences are veridical."

"There was great need for empirical research that would build a more veridical description of organizations and management." — Herbert Simon, Guest Editorial (1995)

"Searle himself notes that one way an experience might fail is for it to be a veridical hallucination: you might hallucinate a cat before you, and by accident there might be a cat before you." — Berit Brogaard, Does Perception Have Content? (2014)

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