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While verisimilitude is considered of a method of making an event or set of circumstances believable, with some magnification, there is a problem with the theory behind verisimilitude. The reader or viewer is given a set of circumstances are plausible in that ficitonal universe. The argument is that one false theory may be closer to reality than another. This begs two important questions; | While verisimilitude is considered of a method of making an event or set of circumstances believable, with some magnification, there is a problem with the theory behind verisimilitude. The reader or viewer is given a set of circumstances are plausible in that ficitonal universe. The argument is that one false theory may be closer to reality than another. This begs two important questions; | ||
"Can we explain how one theory can be closer to the truth, or has greater verisimilitude than another?" | |||
"Can we show that scientific change has sometimes led to theories which are closer to the truth than their predecessors?" | |||
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