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True and False Griffins from John Ruskin's Modern Painters (Part IV. Of Many Things), first published in 1856.
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False is the antonym of the adjective true.

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Falsity

Falsity (from Latin falsitas) or falsehood is a perversion of truth originating in the deceitfulness of one party, and culminating in the damage of another party. Falsity is also a measure of the quality or extent of the falseness of something, while a falsehood may also mean simply an incorrect (false) statement, independent of any intention to deceive.

In the Frege-Church ontology, "truth" is the denotation of a true proposition, while "falsity" is the denotation of false propositions.

In esthetics, falsity is ugly, and truth is beautiful.

In existentialism, falsity is usually a thing to be avoided, and is not desired.

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Examples

  • Counterfeiting money, or attempting to coin genuine legal tender without due authorization;
  • tampering with wills, codicils, or such-like legal instruments;
  • prying into the correspondence of others to their prejudice;
  • using false weights and measures,
  • adulterating merchandise, so as to render saleable what purchasers would otherwise never buy, or so as to derive larger profits from goods otherwise marketable only at lower figures;
  • bribing judges,
  • suborning witnesses;
  • advancing false testimony;
  • manufacturing spurious seals;
  • forging signatures;
  • padding accounts;
  • interpolating the texts of legal enactments; and
  • sharing in the pretended birth of supposititious offspring

are among the chief forms which this crime assumes.


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See also

  • Fake
  • Lie or falsehood, a type of deception in the form of an untruthful statement
  • Falsity or falsehood, in law, deceitfulness by one party that results in damage to another
  • Falsies padding for use in a brassiere to create the appearance of larger breasts


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