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ALETHIOLOGY, an uncommon expression for the doctrine of truth (Gr. &Xrl6ECa, truth) used by Sir William Hamilton in his philosophic writings when treating of the rules for the discrimi nation of truth and error. The term was first used by Lambert in his New Organon, 1764.