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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]
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]
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The [[semantic field|meaning]] of the word '''truth''' extends from [[honesty]], [[good faith]], and [[sincerity]] in general, to agreement with [[fact]] or [[reality]] in particular. http://m-w.com/dictionary/truth The term has no single [[definition]] about which the majority of professional philosophers and scholars agree. Various [[theories]] of truth continue to be debated. There are differing claims on such questions as what constitutes truth; how to define and identify truth; the roles that revealed and acquired knowledge play; and whether truth is [[Subjectivity|subjective]], [[knowledge relativity|relative]], [[Objective (goal)|objective]], or [[Absolute (philosophy)|absolute]]. This article introduces the various perspectives and claims, both today and throughout history.
The [[semantic field|meaning]] of the word '''truth''' extends from [[honesty]], [[good faith]], and [[sincerity]] in general, to agreement with [[fact]] or [[reality]] in particular. [http://m-w.com/dictionary/truth] The term has no single [[definition]] about which the majority of professional philosophers and scholars agree. Various [[theories]] of truth continue to be debated. There are differing claims on such questions as what constitutes truth; how to define and identify truth; the roles that revealed and acquired knowledge play; and whether truth is [[Subjectivity|subjective]], [[knowledge relativity|relative]], [[Objective (goal)|objective]], or [[Absolute (philosophy)|absolute]]. This article introduces the various perspectives and claims, both today and throughout history.
==Etymology==
==Etymology==
