claim veridicality

The veridicality status of a claim — whether it is untrue, licensed-false (fiction, satire, sarcasm), or true. Non-functional: a claim may carry multiple veridicality assessments from different standpoints (Principle 9).

Structure

Property shape: object property; gmeow:StandpointClaim -> gmeow:ClaimVeridicality

Practical Pattern

Use gmeow:claimVeridicality from gmeow:StandpointClaim to gmeow:ClaimVeridicality when the relationship itself belongs in the native GMEOW graph.

Example Snippets

These snippets are generated from canonical slice examples and trimmed to the Turtle blocks where this term appears.

Blame Deflection

# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2026 Blackcat Informatics® Inc. <paudley@blackcatinformatics.ca>
# SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-4.0
#
# Worked example: deception is held ≠ projected. A spokesperson
# privately BELIEVES an internal misconfiguration caused an outage, but publicly
# PROJECTS that a third-party vendor did. The lie is a gmeow:Event linking the
# two DoxasticStandpointClaims: gmeow:heldStandpoint (the believed claim) and
# gmeow:projectedStandpoint (the asserted-but-disbelieved one). Falsehood is not
# an isFalse boolean — it is the projected claim carrying gmeow:claimVeridicality
# gmeow:veridicalityUntrue. Nothing here needs a "deception class": ordinary
# claims, an event type, and the held/projected gap do all the work.
#
# Re-grounded for both standpoints are reified as gmeow:DoxasticState
# instances and reported by gmeow:DoxasticStandpointClaim instances via
# gmeow:claimOfBelief. The held belief has high credence; the projected belief has
# low credence — the spokesperson publicly avows the vendor-caused proposition
# while actually disbelieving it. The deception is the divergence between the
# high-credence held state and the low-credence projected state.
@prefix gmeow: <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/> .
@prefix ex:    <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/examples/deception/> .
@prefix rdfs:  <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix xsd:   <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .

# --- What the spokesperson publicly PROJECTS: the vendor caused it. Asserted
#     unequivocally, but UNTRUE — the falsehood is a veridicality value on the
#     claim, never an isFalse flag. The claim is backed by the low-credence
#     projected DoxasticState; the gap between the avowed unequivocal claim and
#     the 0.05 credence is the deception.
ex:projectedClaim a gmeow:DoxasticStandpointClaim ;
    gmeow:vantage ex:spokesperson ;
    gmeow:observedFeature ex:vendorCauseProposition ;
    gmeow:claimOfBelief ex:spokespersonProjectedBelief ;
    gmeow:claimModality gmeow:unequivocal ;
    gmeow:claimVeridicality gmeow:veridicalityUntrue ;
    gmeow:observationMethod gmeow:methodExpertJudgement .

Grounded Claim

ex:verdict-2300 a gmeow:StandpointClaim ;
    gmeow:vantage ex:auditor ;
    gmeow:observedFeature ex:stmt-2300-is-claimed ;
    gmeow:observationMethod gmeow:methodNliDerivation ;
    gmeow:claimModality gmeow:bullshit ;
    gmeow:claimVeridicality gmeow:veridicalityUntrue .

Common Companion Terms

gmeow:StandpointClaim, gmeow:ClaimVeridicality

Usage Advice

Use when

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How to use

Examples