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What does truthy mean?

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Adjective
  1. (obsolete) Faithful; true. [19th c.]
  2. (US, colloquial) Only superficially true; that is asserted or felt instinctively to be true, with no recourse to facts. [from 21st c.]
  3. (computing) Evaluating to true in a Boolean context.
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In JavaScript, as well as the true or false Boolean values, other types of variables can be said to be truthy or falsey.
Truthiness feel truthy because it is familiar and easy to accept.
In the end, though, it may not be truthy enough for even the most forgiving reader.
I've learned a lot from Pete, but mostly from his amazing inventory of truthy first-hand stories.
Historians today point out that each of these ringing assertions was, at best, truthy.
If the tale is untrue, it's truthy, as anyone who has run a marathon can attest.

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