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[[Things]] are [[time]] conditioned, but truth is timeless. The more truth you know, the more truth you are, the more of the past you can understand and of the future you can comprehend.
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==Origin==
[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] ''trewthe'', from [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._600-1100.09THE_OLD_ENGLISH.2C_OR_ANGLO-SAXON_PERIOD Old English] ''trēowth'' [[fidelity]]; akin to Old English ''trēowe'' faithful
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12th_century before 12th Century]
<center>For lessons on the [[topic]] of '''''[[Truth]]''''', follow [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Category:Truth '''''this link'''''].</center>
==Definitions==
*1:a. archaic : fidelity, constancy
:b : [[sincerity]] in [[action]], [[character]], and utterance
*2: a (1) : the state of [[being]] the case : [[fact]] (2) : the body of real things, events, and facts : [[actuality]] (3) often capitalized : a [[transcendent]] fundamental or [[spiritual]] reality
:b : a [[judgment]], [[proposition]], or [[idea]] that is true or accepted as true <truths of thermodynamics>
:c : the body of true [[statements]] and propositions
*3: the property (as of a statement) of being in [[accord]] with [[fact]] or [[reality]]
==Description==
'''Truth''' is most often used to mean in [[accord]] with [[fact]] or [[reality]], or fidelity to an original or to a standard or [[ideal]].
Truth is [[inconcussible]]--forever exempt from all transient vicissitudes, albeit never dead and formal, always vibrant and adaptable--radiantly alive. But when truth becomes linked with fact, then both time and space condition its meanings and correlate its values. Such realities of truth wedded to fact become concepts and are accordingly relegated to the domain of [[relative]] cosmic realities.[http://mercy.urantia.org/papers/paper118.html#3.time-spacerelationships]
The commonly understood opposite of truth is [[falsehood]], which, correspondingly, can also take on a [[logical]], [[factual]], or [[ethical]] [[meaning]]. The concept of truth is discussed and debated in several [[contexts]], including [[philosophy]] and [[religion]]. Many human activities depend upon the concept, where it is assumed rather than being a subject of discussion; these include [[science]], [[law]], and everyday life.
Various [[theories]] and views of truth continue to be debated among scholars, philosophers, and theologians. [[Language]] and words are a means by which humans convey [[information]] to one another and the method used to determine what is a "truth" is termed a criterion of truth. There are differing claims on such questions as what constitutes truth: what things are truthbearers 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]].
==Quote==
[[Things]] are [[time]] conditioned, but '''truth''' is timeless. The more truth you know, the more truth you are, the more of the past you can understand and of the future you can [[comprehend]].
Truth is [[inconcussible]]--forever exempt from all transient vicissitudes, albeit never dead and formal, always vibrant and adaptable--radiantly alive. But when truth becomes linked with [[fact]], then both [[time]] and [[space]] condition its [[meanings]] and correlate its [[values]]. Such realities of truth wedded to [[fact]] become concepts and are accordingly relegated to the domain of [[relative]] cosmic realities.[[118:3]]
==See also==
* [[Belief]]
* [[Knowledge]]
[[Category: Philosophy]]
