truth quotient

plural truth quotients

1. The degree to which someone or something reflects fact rather than fiction; the degree to which something reflects reality.

   Religious beliefs are not born of the same conditions through which knowledge is established. Thus, in the technical philosophical sense, they carry no truth quotients.

   1995, Walter H. Capps, Religious Studies: The Making of a Discipline, →ISBN, page 249

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   It might be best, at this point, to dispense entirely with questions of the truth quotient of documentary films that are propped on misleading binarisms such as fiction/non-fiction, realism/fantasy, true/false.

   2005, Gary D. Rhodes, John Parris Springer, Docufictions, →ISBN

   In his discussion of the shortcomings of current literary studies, Joseph Epstein, essayist, short story writer, and editor, remarked that “what they [the great novelists] wrote contained as high a truth quotient as I was likely to get from any other kind of writing.

   2014, Farah Dally, The Magic of Truth: A Reality to Remember, →ISBN, page 119