Where does verisimilitude collide?

In poetics and drama, verisimilitude is the quality of seeming true or lifelike (the appearance of probability that lets an audience accept a fiction), rooted in Aristotle's criterion that a convincing plot proceeds by what is probable or necessary, and later codified by neoclassical critics as vraisemblance. Aristotle's Poetics argues that a probable impossibility is preferable to an improbable possibility, making believability a matter of internal plausibility rather than literal fact. The referent is the lifelike plausibility of a represented world, judged by how readily an audience credits it.[1]

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The degree to which a fiction appears probable and lifelike

Recovery means

Not applicable

Measured by

Judged by an audience's acceptance of a work's internal probability and consistency

In the philosophy of science, verisimilitude is truthlikeness, a measure of how close a theory is to the whole truth, proposed by Karl Popper so that a later false theory could still count as an improvement over an earlier one by capturing more truth and less falsehood. In Conjectures and Refutations he sought to define this content comparison formally, as the balance of a theory's true and false consequences. The referent is an epistemic property of scientific theories, not the lifelikeness of a fiction, and it is a wholly different construct that happens to share the word.[2]

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A theory's estimated closeness to the complete truth

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Not applicable

Measured by

Compared by the balance of a theory's true and false consequences relative to a rival