وَيُقَابِلُهُ الْبَاطِلُ
Its opposite is al-bāṭil, falsity or invalidity in this context.
A judgment is not true if it fails to accord with reality. However, whether a claim is false and whether its speaker deliberately deceives are separate issues; an uninformed person may be sincerely wrong.
For example, calling a particular iron object “wood” is an inaccurate claim about that object. The referent and meaning must be settled before assessing the claim.
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Realities Are Established: Truth, Correspondence and Essence
وَيُقَابِلُهُ الْبَاطِلُ
Its opposite is al-bāṭil, falsity or invalidity in this context.
A judgment is not true if it fails to accord with reality. However, whether a claim is false and whether its speaker deliberately deceives are separate issues; an uninformed person may be sincerely wrong.
For example, calling a particular iron object “wood” is an inaccurate claim about that object. The referent and meaning must be settled before assessing the claim.