What is Truth?

Truth is most often used to mean being in accord with fact or reality, or fidelity to an original idea or to a standard or ideal. In modern contexts it can refer to an idea of "truth to self," or authenticity.

Questions to consider as to what constitutes truth: what things are truth bearers capable of being true or false; how to define and identify truth; the roles that faith-based and empirically based knowledge play; and whether truth is subjective or objective, relative or absolute.

Many human activities depend upon the concept of Truth, where its nature as a concept is assumed rather than being a subject of discussion; these include most of the sciences, law, and everyday life. Some philosophers view the concept of truth as basic, and unable to be explained in any terms that are more easily understood than the concept of truth itself. Commonly, truth is viewed as the correspondence of language or thought to an independent reality, in what is sometimes called the correspondence theory of truth.

Other philosophers take this common meaning to be secondary and derivative. The original meaning of "Truth" in Ancient Greece was unconcealment, or the revealing or bringing of what was previously hidden into the open.

Pragmatists take Truth to have some manner of essential relation to human practices for inquiring into and discovering Truth, and that Truth is what human inquiry would find out on a matter, if our practice of inquiry were taken as far as it could profitably go.

Metaphysically, Truth can be defined as "unchangeable", "that which has no distortion", "that which is beyond distinctions of time, space, and person", "that which pervades the universe in all its constancy".

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