It is important to check the truthfulness of something by asking how it can be confirmed and how to determine if it's factual. Which intellectual standard is this?

• A. Fairness or Accuracy
• B. Clarity
• C. Relevance
• D. Precision

Answer: (A)

Accuracy is about whether a claim can be proven true and supported by evidence. When you check truthfulness, you’re testing accuracy: you ask how the claim can be confirmed, what evidence supports it, and whether it matches reliable data. An accurate claim withstands verification and aligns with known facts. Clarity focuses on how understandable the statement is; relevance on whether it applies to the issue at hand; precision on the exactness of details. Fairness concerns impartiality and considering multiple viewpoints, which is important but doesn’t directly ensure truthfulness or verifiability. So the standard that best describes the process of verifying whether something is factual is accuracy.