Weyken

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Noun 'weyken' (plural weyken) : 1. Data internalized as supportable knowledge with a sustainable provisional truth value ascribed to it through the medium of critical rationalism and reasoning based on evidence (for example - and ideally, through the scientific method). 2. My weyken (based on experience and non-falsification) is that the sun will most probably appear to rise tomorrow.

Collective Noun 'Weyken System': 1. A group of supported, coherent, related and mutually consistent weyken.

Transitive Verb to 'weyken' (third-person singular simple present 'weyken', present participle 'weykening', simple past 'weykened', past participle 'weykened') : 1. To provisionally assign a truth value to a reasonably supported proposition. 2. After examination, I 'weyken' these numbers fairly represent the accounts. 3. To provisionally assign the likelihood of a predictable event 4. Based on the meteorological indicators, I 'weyken' there is a likelihood of rain tomorrow. 5. To determine, based on evidence the likelihood that someone is telling the truth. 6. After hearing your witnesses on this matter, I 'weyken' you are correct when you say that.

Intransitive Verb to 'weyken': 1. to 'weyken' (third-person singular simple present 'weykens', present participle 'weykening', simple past 'weykened', past participle 'weykened') 2. To engage in the process of 'weykening'. 3. After reviewing the critique, I 'weykened'.

Adjective 'weyken': 1. Describing a cognitive position attained through weyken 2. John never having seen an white crow, held the weyken (perspective) that it was possible based on his having seen other albino creatures.

Etymology: Old English weye, weigh or measure: Old English cennan, to declare. Perception; understanding, Middle English kennen (influenced by Old Norse kenna, to know). Initially introduced on the BBS of the Church of Virus in 2005.

Source: Memetic Lexicon

Reason for use: To clearly differentiate between the process of assigning a truth value based on the evaluation of evidence using the scientific method and that of assigning a truth value based on cognition in the absence of concrete sharable evidence (belief, thinking).