"Truth has a variety of meanings, such as the state of being in accord with fact or reality.[1] It can also mean having fidelity to an original or to a standard or ideal. In a common usage, it also means constancy or sincerity in action or character.[1] The direct opposite of truth is falsehood, which can correspondingly take logical, factual or ethical meanings. However, language and words are essentially "tools" by which humans convey information to one another. As such, "truth" must have a beneficial use in order to be retained within language. Defining this potency and applicability can be looked upon as "criteria", and the method used to recognize a "truth" is termed a criterion of truth. Since there is no single accepted criterion, they can all be considered "theories". Various theories and views of truth continue to be debated among scholars and philosophers. 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 revealed and acquired knowledge play; and whether truth is subjective or objective, relative or absolute." - Thomas Page

Criteria_of_truth http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... False http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... 2 -6 Certainty https://friendfeed.com/citizen... - Thomas Page

Belief - Inconvenient Truths : Flat - Globe , Geocentric - Heliocentric , ... - Thomas Page

Officially non-partisan, they focused on "shifting public opinion and policy" to beliefs, rather than traditional `objective' policy advice. - Thomas Page

- { } , 5 -5 Be scrupulously truthful, even if the truth is inconvenient, for it is more inconvenient when you try to conceal it. http://www.brainpickings.org/index... , Motivated reasoning http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... , 8 -21 sort reality http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... delusions http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... , http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012... Fact http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... , 9 -1 Category:Reality http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Thomas Page

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humanity's ability or willingness to perceive and transmit objective truth - Thomas Page

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True Object of Knowledge http://machaut.uchicago.edu/... Naked Truth = Plain unadorned facts, without concealment or embellishment. For example, What I've told you is the naked truth. This expression supposedly alludes to a fable in which Truth and Falsehood went bathing, Falsehood then dressed in Truth's clothes, and Truth, refusing to take another's clothes, went naked. [Late 1500s] - Thomas Page