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Hi,Please tell me the difference in meaning between:1. A real story.2. A true story.ThanksQuoc

Marius Hancu · Accepted Answer

1. A real story. Conforming to the reality.

2. A true story. Conforming to the truth.

Could mean the same in many circumstances.

Tung Quoc · Answer

Hi,

1/ Is that right?

a. A real life. Conforming to the reality.

b. A true life. Conforming to the truth.

Could mean the same in many circumstances.

2/ What is the difference in meaning between reality and truth? How to distinguish them clearly? In my dictionary, they mean the same.

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Marius Hancu · Answer

Tung Quoc 2/ What is the difference in meaning between reality and truth? How to distinguish them clearly? In my dictionary, they mean the same.

Find another English Vienamese dictionary online.Yours isn't good, if it says that.

Marius Hancu · Answer

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real

synonyms ACTUAL, TRUE:

these words are here considered only in their general uses and not in uses philosophical, aesthetic, or critical. So considered, they are often interchangeable.

REAL may stress genuineness, especially identity or correspondence between appearance and essence <a real diamond> <real people who had actually lived around here and who had been part of some real event -- Dorothy Barclay> <the difference between real and sham enjoyment -- G.B.Shaw> <real intelligence must recognize its own limitations -- M.R.Cohen>

ACTUAL stresses the fact of existence, of fidelity to the existent, as opposed to the nonexistent, hypothetical, abstract, or conjectural <the possible way -- I am far from asserting it was the actual way -- Havelock Ellis> <a cultural -- perhaps, for some, impossible -- ideal and not the actual pattern of behavior, even in our own society -- Weston La Barre> <most men are potential autocrats, the strong and capable may become actual autocrats -- V.L.Parrington>

TRUE states or implies conformity to the real or actual, especially as indicating or implying a standard, norm, or type <a true poet -- A.T.Quiller-Couch> <in the seventh and eighth centuries there were no true kings of England -- Kemp Malone> <of the three waterways surrounding Manhattan, only the Hudson River is a true river -- American Guide Series: New York City>

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Tung Quoc · Answer

Thanks,

But please tell me the exact meaning of reality and truth here?

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Marius Hancu · Answer

Pretty much the same meaning, esp at your level of English, sorry.

You know French? realite, verite.

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

IMO, at your level, you need a good English-speaking Vietnamese teacher, to explain things in your own language, as your English isn't yet at the required level.

Others here might be however more succesful in explaining these things to you.

Marius Hancu · Answer

I.e.
1+1=2
is a mathematical truth
but you don't see it around us, so some might not consider it as part of the direct, immediate reality, the things around us.

Thus, it is a truth, but not a palpable one, one which can be touched. Some consider only things which can be seen/perceived or touched as reality.

But some could say I am putting an apple beside another apple and I have two apples, and this is not only a truth, but a reality.

Marius Hancu · Answer

reality: all the things which exist

truth: all the things which are valid/factual, according to a given criterion

But sometime the criterion for truth is: do these things exist around us, say in the nature?
Then, they are part of both the truth and the reality.

Tung Quoc · Answer

Hi,

I don't know French, sorry.

You wrote:

Do these things exist around us, say in the nature?

What is the subject of say ?Is the subject these things? What is the meaning of say in the nature ?

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Marius Hancu · Answer

say=e.g., for example

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