Talk:Verisimilitude

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Yeah...this one needs some cleanup.

the link to the german article "wahrscheinlichkeit" is simply wrong! "wahrscheinlichkeit" means probability, not verisimilitude. unfortunately i have no idea which german term resembles "verisimilitude"! i don't know how to delete that link to the german article right now. if anyone knows how to do it -- please go for it ;)

Contents 1 Philosophical Verisimilitude 2 In Theatre 3 Suggestion 4 Perhaps 5 Wikipedia is not a dictionary

[edit] Philosophical Verisimilitude

add Philosophical Verisimilitude. (check Stanford's Online Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on Verisimilitude.) lakitu 11:25, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] In Theatre

I just added the theatre's use (or knowing disuse) of verisimilitude, but the rest of this entry needs far more citation and checking.Ndpagency 20:56, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Suggestion

For further improvement of the article, I'd like to suggest that someone "in the know" could include a comparative commentary between "similitude with the real world" (verisimilitude) and "being truthful to the world within the plot". I don't know how to refer to this diference, so I'd say "extensive verisimilitude" and "restricted verisimilitude", or something like that.

A widely known example: The Matrix. Nobody is supposed to stop bullets with a gesture or fly by their own means in the real world (so it's not verisimile), but, within the plot, doing this is not a stretch and it's perfectly justifiable - that means, in the plot, that people are actually supposed to do so.

On the other hand, James Bond is supposed to be a human being much like everyone else, subject to the laws of physics and all. But he usually does stuff that aren't supposed to happen in neither world (real or fantastic). This way, he's not verisimile at all - but this doesn't stop the movie from being entertaining to some.

Sometimes the very lack of verisimilitude might make the character, instead of breaking it?

[edit] Perhaps

Someone with the knowledge might like to describe how character flaws and verisimilitude are linked and how that effects the audience's emotional attatchment. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 60.242.27.151 (talk) 08:01, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia is not a dictionary

But this article seems to be soley to define a word. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 170.215.17.61 (talk) 04:59, 14 April 2007 (UTC).

If you read the Karl Popper article you will see that it is a more complex concept in the philosophy of science. For some reason it is more extensively discussed there. --68.35.156.229 (talk) 12:54, 23 January 2008 (UTC)