adequation
- noun
- /ˌædɪˈkwāʃən/
- Formal
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correspondencia
- Philosophers often debate the concept of adequation to understand how our theories match the reality we observe.
What we're talking about is something more similar to the the notion of truth as adequation, right?
- What we're talking about is something more similar to the the notion of truth as adequation, right?
- In what sense are we talking about truth in the traditional sense of adequation between thought and and being or thought and actuality?
Examples
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My conclusion is that anthropology needs to be careful if we want to avoid a situation where alternative views are evaluated more in terms of identity, imputed or otherwise, of the disputants than in terms of the adequation between evidence and theory.
Academic text (1996) -
In short, there ceased to be adequation between Homer's texts and the world, but the new accounts often employed the same medium.
Academic text (2017) -
Its aesthetic quality, then, is to be looked for in the conformity (adequation) of the work to itself.
Academic text (1994) -
And there's some sort of relation of adequatio adequation equation.
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Adre is a scholastic way, an adequation or correspondence between the mind, the intellectus and the things.
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The adequation between the artist's intention and the viewer's interpretation can greatly influence the impact of the artwork.
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In his lecture, he explained the importance of adequation in ensuring that our beliefs accurately reflect the truth.
Synonyms
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4.2
A close match that shows two things are similar
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6.2
A situation where two things have the same value, meaning, or effect
How Accurate
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Morphology
Etymology
Adequation comes from Latin parts ad- 'to' and aequus 'equal', like the English words equal and equate. So in philosophy adequation means a thought or idea 'matches' reality, showing an agreement or 'equality' between what we think and what is real.