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In literature, the term "verification" emerges as a multifaceted concept that spans empirical confirmation, practical validation, and even existential affirmation. In some works, it is portrayed as a personal, almost mystical process—faith itself can create its own verification, serving as both belief and evidence [1, 2]. At the same time, authors use verification to distinguish reliable memories from mere dreams or unreliable recollections, as in the case of recollecting dim memories to confirm their reality [3]. Scientific and sociological texts often stress that facts and theories require experimental or observational verification to be deemed valid, exemplified by the verification of structural stability or hypotheses through deliberate testing and repeated observation [4, 5, 6, 7]. Pragmatist thinkers debate the nature of truth by tying it intrinsically to the verification process—whether direct or indirect—with some arguing that truth is the result of ideas that lead to successful practical outcomes [8, 9, 10, 11]. Thus, across a diverse range of writings, "verification" not only denotes a method of empirical checking but also symbolizes the practice of grounding ideas and beliefs through experiential or theoretical corroboration [12, 13].
  1. His faith acts on the powers above him as a claim, and creates its own verification.
    — from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James
  2. The belief creates its verification.
    — from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James
  3. This second verification of his dim memories was enough; he knew now they were not dreams.
    — from The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
  4. On the other hand, a fact not subject to verification is not a fact for natural science.
    — from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. Burgess and Robert Ezra Park
  5. These principles are demonstrated by the experimental verification of the consequences drawn from them.
    — from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson
  6. Verification of the stability of an arch, and calculation of the pier supporting this arch.
    — from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson
  7. It is its representative character, the character which makes it possible of verification by further observation which makes it a scientific fact.
    — from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. Burgess and Robert Ezra Park
  8. INDIRECTLY OR ONLY POTENTIALLY VERIFYING PROCESSES MAY THUS BE TRUE AS WELL AS FULL VERIFICATION-PROCESSES.
    — from Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking by William James
  9. You pragmatists put the cart before the horse in making truth's being reside in verification-processes.
    — from Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking by William James
  10. True is the name for whatever idea starts the verification-process, useful is the name for its completed function in experience.
    — from Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking by William James
  11. Following our mental image of a house along the cow-path, we actually come to see the house; we get the image's full verification.
    — from Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking by William James
  12. THE VERIFICATION OF MORAL LAWS The carnage of the Boulevard Montmartre constitutes the originality of the coup d'état .
    — from The History of a Crime by Victor Hugo
  13. The true contrast between science and myth is more nearly touched when we say that science alone is capable of verification.
    — from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

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