Rumaana Haq

• A great example of verisimilitude is superman. We all know that a people can not fly, but the way the story is created in superman, we believe he can, this is verisimilitude.

• Whereas if someone flew in a TV drama like Hollyoaks, it would seem too unreal and wrong, verisimilitude is not achieved.

• Another example of when verisimilitude is used is in the movie Harry Potter. In this movie we see witches and wizards casting spells and all that; but we know that magic is not real; however the story created behind it makes us believe, here verisimilitude is achived .

Verisimilitude is a philosophical concept that distinguishes between the truth and the falsity of assertions and hypotheses.[1] The problem of verisimilitude is the problem of articulating what it takes for one false theory to be closer to the truth than another false theory.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verisimilitude