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==Origin==
[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] ''trewthe'', from [https://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
*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12th_century before 12th Century]
<center>For lessons on the [[topic]] of '''''[[Truth]]''''', follow [https://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]].
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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.
[[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.
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.[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.[[118:3]]
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==See also==
* [[Belief]]
* [[Knowledge]]
[[Category: Philosophy]]
