Another definition: 'A statement proven to be or accepted as true.' In other words, the truth is what's true. How does that help?
The only reality seems to be that it's impossible to say what the truth is.
Where's the 'truth' if I say the 'fact' is this way and you say it's another way? And if someone else disagrees with both our 'facts'? The truth, reality or the 'fact' then is that it's actually several, maybe many, different views of what the 'fact' is.
That's not relativism, as the soothsayers say. It's pluralism. But we miss the point by always arguing about the 'truth' when what we should see is we are arguing about our knowledge and why we have it.
The 'truth' is a word for the position or opinion each of us adopts on a subject and that is contradicted by others who have a different view.
We're not, then, in some grand search for something eternal. We're only in a permanent struggle to persuade one another in the moment.
And from there, what emerges are things many of us find we can agree with, given time.
