What Latin phrase, which translates as "in good faith", is taken to mean sincere, honest intention or belief, or authentic and true?
Good faith Good faith Good faith (), in human interactions, is a sincere intention to be fair, open, and honest, regardless of the outcome of the interaction. While some Latin phrases lose their literal meaning over centuries, this is not the case with "bona fides"; it is still widely used and interchangeable with its generally accepted modern-day English translation of "good faith". It is an important concept within law and business. The opposed concepts are bad faith, "mala fides" (duplicity) and perfidy (pretense). In contemporary English, the usage of "bona fides" is synonymous with credentials and identity. The phrase is sometimes used
Exclusive or kind of common-sense intuition about "or", it is sometimes argued that in many natural languages, English included, the word "or" has an "exclusive" sense. The exclusive disjunction of a pair of propositions, ("p", "q"), is supposed to mean that "p" is true or "q" is true, but not both. For example, it might be argued that the normal intention of a statement like "You may have coffee, or you may have tea" is to stipulate that exactly one of the conditions can be true. Certainly under some circumstances a sentence like this example should be taken as forbidding the possibility