Verisimilitude

In the corrupt linguistic usage, verisimilitude means as much as “nearly true” or “somewhat true,” or something that once could become true. But by its very composition, the word cannot mean all this. What appears to be true, does not have to be true even in the smallest degree: and yet it must appear positive. Verisimilitude is the object of intelligence, of the ability to distinguish among the possible consequences of free actions the real ones, and it is something entirely subjective. That which some logicians have called and tried to calculate as verisimilitude is possibility.