UNTRUE
LACKING TRUTH OR CONTRARY to REALITY.NOT TRUE.
Antonym
- TRUEEXIST CONFORMing to SPEAK(what is claimed). (BE AS SAID(asserted))[[NB: the subject of this syntactic predicate is the situation identified in the "sentence" of which this syntactic predicate is predicated. "God made Heaven and Earth" is TRUE iff the situation identified in this sentence (the creation of Heaven and Earth by God) EXISTS(i.e. occurred).]
- CORRECTAPPROPRIATE so as to FIT the FACTS or the PRINCIPLES PERFECTLY.
Hypernym
- LACKSITUATION OF NOT HAVING, OR NOT to BEING-IN the UNIVERSE.
Hyponym
- ABSURD UNTRUE so that MANY are NOT ABLE to IMAGINE IT to be TRUE.
Old Chinese Criteria
2. Xū 虛 claims that something is to be rejected because it is insufficiently founded on solid fact.
Modern Chinese Criteria
不對
rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH /
- A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages
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BUCK 1988)
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16.74 - De differentiis
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DIFFERENTIAE I)
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167 FALSUM, FICTUM
221. Inter Falsum et fictum. Falsum ad oratores pertinet, ubi veritas saepe ita luditur, ut quae facta sunt negentur; fictum vero ad poetas, ubi quae facta non sunt facta dicuntur. Falsum est ergo quod verum non est; fictum quod tantum verisimile est.
- Woerterbuch der Philosophie. Neue Beitraege zu einer Kritik der Sprache
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MAUTHNER WP 1924)
p.
I.458 - 中國文化背景八千詞 Zhongguo wenhua beijing ba qian ci
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WU SANXING 2008)
p.
370
Words
虛言 xū yán OC: qhla ŋan MC: hi̯ɤ ŋi̯ɐn 23 AttributionsWD
- Syntactic words
- NPabtextempty speeches, unsubstantiated claim; idle propositions; idle statement; unfounded statement; lies
非 fēi OC: pɯl MC: pɨi 22 AttributionsWD
Fēi 非 refers to something being untrue and thus to be rejected.
- Word relations
- Ant: 是/TRUE
Shì 是 (ant. fēi 非 "wrong") refers prototypically to what invites assent or approval.
- Syntactic words
- nabfactualwhat is untrue
- vibe untrue (of statements)
- vigradedbe untrue
- vilogicalbe a logical mistake, be logically wrongCH
- visubj=nonhumanbe false; be wrong; be untrueDS
- vtoNpassivebe regarded as wrong
- vtoNputativeregard as untrue
- vtoNputative.reflex.自consider (oneself) as in the wrong
虛 xū OC: qhla MC: hi̯ɤ 10 AttributionsWD
Xū 虛 claims that something is to be rejected because it is insufficiently founded on solid fact.
- Word relations
- Epithet: 言/SPEAK
Yán 言 is to speak up, propose, typically in public, and on one's own initiative, to maintain something, and the word can indroduce direct speech as well as occasionally very limited indirect speech. - Synon: 空/UNTRUE
- Syntactic words
- v[adN]mistakeVK
- vadNuntrue; unsubstantiated
- vadVfalsely, without solid foundation in truth
- vibe unfounded; be without real substance; be unsubstantiated
虛妄 xū wàng OC: qhla maŋs MC: hi̯ɤ mi̯ɐŋ 6 AttributionsWD
- Syntactic words
- VPadNempty and unfounded; insubstantial and misguided
- VPibe illusory; be untrue, falsely established, be false, be an illusion, be provisional
空 kōng OC: khooŋ MC: khuŋ 3 AttributionsWD
- Word relations
- Contrast: 妄/MISTAKE
- Synon: 虛/UNTRUE
Xū 虛 claims that something is to be rejected because it is insufficiently founded on solid fact.
- Syntactic words
- vadVgroundlessly
外 wài OC: ŋoods MC: ŋɑi 2 AttributionsWD
- Syntactic words
- vadNexternal to the true faith> heterodox 外書 "heterodox writings"
虛辭 xū cí OC: qhla zɯ MC: hi̯ɤ zɨ 2 AttributionsWD
- Syntactic words
- NPabactlies, a statement without reason
無實事 wú shí shì OC: ma ɢljiɡ dzrɯs MC: mi̯o ʑit ɖʐɨ 1 AttributionWD
- Syntactic words
- VPiBUDDH: be without substance, be ultimately untrue
不然 bù rán OC: pɯʔ njen MC: pi̯ut ȵiɛn 0 AttributionsWD
- Syntactic words
- NPabfactualuntruth
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