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The meaning of the wor truth extends from honesty, good faith, and sincerity in general, to agreement with fact or reality in particular. 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 subjective, relative, objective, or absolute. This article introduces the various perspectives and claims, both today and throughout history.

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  • Don't lie! This "will out"
  • John Keats:"Beauty is ____, ____ beauty,--that is all / Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know"
  • The name of Mongolia's Communist Party newspaper Unen, like Russia's Pravda, means this
  • Tertullian advised, "Veritas non erubescit" -- this does not blush
  • Harvard University's motto is simply Veritas, meaning this
  • Around 1050 Yaroslav I issued the first Russian code of law, the Russkaya Pravda, or "Russian" this
  • In 1823 Lord Byron penned, "And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but" this "in masquerade"
  • A witness is asked to tell this, the whole this & nothing but this
  • The name of the leading Mongolian newspaper Unen, just like Pravda, translates as this
  • In her quest for this, her last name, Sojourner asked, "I have plowed and planted...and aren't I a woman?"
  • The moment of ____ serum
  • Mann: "Seek not greatness but seek" this "and you will find both"; you might get justice & the American way, too
  • Yale's "Lux et Veritas" means "Light and" this
  • "Glory, glory hallelujah, his _____ is marching on"
  • The motto of Johns Hopkins U., from John's gospel, is "Veritas vos liberabit", this "shall make you free"
  • In "1984" Winston Smith works for the Ministry of this
  • "Speak" this "to power", meaning tell the mighty what they don't want to hear, was coined in a 1955 Quaker pamphlet
  • Grainy film stock gives the impression of this, verite en francais

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