Meaning of truth quotient | Babel Free

Definitions

The degree to which someone or something reflects fact rather than fiction; the degree to which something reflects reality.

Examples

“Religious beliefs are not born of the same conditions through which knowledge is established. Thus, in the technical philosophical sense⟳, they carry⟳ no truth quotients.”

“It might be best, at this point⟳, to dispense entirely with questions of the truth quotient of documentary films that are propped on misleading binarisms such as fiction/non-fiction, realism/fantasy, true/false.”

“In his discussion of the shortcomings of current literary studies, Joseph Epstein, essayist, short story writer, and editor, remarked that “what they [the great novelists] wrote contained as high a truth quotient as I was likely to get⟳ from any other kind of writing.”

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