Authenticity (philosophy)

Within the arts, archaeology, the study of antiques, and similar fields involving unique or scarce artifacts from the past, and, with regard to documents in law, authenticity refers to the truthfulness of origins, attributions, commitments, sincerity, devotion and intentions; not a copy or forgery. See also provenance.

Authenticity may mean:

• Authenticity (art), describes how individuals expericence art as being authentic, real or original as opposed to being commercial
  • Authentic performance
• Authenticity (philosophy), a particular way of dealing with the external world
• Authenticity (psychology), a psychological concept in which the individual derives gratification and positive emotions from exercising signature strengths

Authenticity can be used in relation to:

• Archaeological forgery is the process of creating works lacking authenticity in that they claim a false ancient origin and history
• Authenticity (reenactment), in historical reenactment, a measure of how close an item, prop, action, weapon, or custom is, to what would actually have been used or done in the time period being depicted
  • Art forgery is the process of creating works of art lacking authenticity in that they claim a false history or origin
• With respect to cuisine, music, dance, architecture and other popular and practical arts, the term may refer to the perceived degree of faithfulness to a recognized regional, ethnic, or other tradition.

Authentic, the adjective form of authenticity, may mean:

• Authentic (horse), an Olympic medalist
• in music theory:
  • Authentic cadence
  • Authentic mode
• Authentic (Joey Pearson album) is also the name of an album recorded by R&B child singer Joey Pearson
• Authentic Records, a record label

Authentic educating is a philosophical perspective to teaching proposed by Dr. Robert Leahy at Stetson University.

See also

• Authentication
• Provenance
• Verisimilitude

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