A report on Truth

An angel carrying the banner of "Truth", Roslin, Midlothian
Walter Seymour Allward's Veritas (Truth) outside Supreme Court of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario Canada
'"What is Truth?" by Nikolai Ge, depicting John 18:38 in which Pilate asks Christ "What is truth?"

Property of being in accord with fact or reality.

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An angel carrying the banner of "Truth", Roslin, Midlothian

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Diogenes Searching for an Honest Man, attributed to J. H. W. Tischbein (c. 1780)

Honesty

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Diogenes Searching for an Honest Man, attributed to J. H. W. Tischbein (c. 1780)

Honesty or truthfulness is a facet of moral character that connotes positive and virtuous attributes such as integrity, truthfulness, straightforwardness, including straightforwardness of conduct, along with the absence of lying, cheating, theft, etc. Honesty also involves being trustworthy, loyal, fair, and sincere.

Crispin Wright

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Crispin James Garth Wright (born 21 December 1942) is a British philosopher, who has written on neo-Fregean (neo-logicist) philosophy of mathematics, Wittgenstein's later philosophy, and on issues related to truth, realism, cognitivism, skepticism, knowledge, and objectivity.

Dialectic

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Dialectic (, dialektikḗ; related to dialogue; Dialektik), also known as the dialectical method, is a discourse between two or more people holding different points of view about a subject but wishing to establish the truth through reasoned argumentation.

Zeno of Citium, the founder of Stoicism, in the Farnese collection, Naples – Photo by Paolo Monti, 1969

Stoicism

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School of Hellenistic religion founded by Zeno of Citium in Athens in the early 3rd century BC. It is a philosophy of personal eudaemonic virtue ethics informed by its system of logic and its views on the natural world, asserting that the practice of virtue is both necessary and sufficient to achieve eudaimonia—flourishing by means of living an ethical life.

School of Hellenistic religion founded by Zeno of Citium in Athens in the early 3rd century BC. It is a philosophy of personal eudaemonic virtue ethics informed by its system of logic and its views on the natural world, asserting that the practice of virtue is both necessary and sufficient to achieve eudaimonia—flourishing by means of living an ethical life.

Zeno of Citium, the founder of Stoicism, in the Farnese collection, Naples – Photo by Paolo Monti, 1969
Antisthenes, founder of the Cynic school of philosophy
Bust of Seneca
Chrysippus
Marcus Aurelius, the Stoic Roman emperor
Justus Lipsius, founder of Neostoicism

Truth can be distinguished from fallacy—even if, in practice, only an approximation can be made.

Popper in the 1980s

Karl Popper

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Austrian-British philosopher, academic and social commentator.

Austrian-British philosopher, academic and social commentator.

Popper in the 1980s
Popper bust in the Arkadenhof of the University of Vienna
Popper's gravesite in in Vienna, Austria
Popper with Professor Cyril Höschl, while receiving an honorary doctorate from Charles University in Prague in May 1994.
Popper in 1990
English Heritage blue plaque at Burlington Rise, Oakleigh Park, London

The theory met critical objections to truth as correspondence and thereby rehabilitated it.

Good faith

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Sincere intention to be fair, open, and honest, regardless of the outcome of the interaction.

Sincere intention to be fair, open, and honest, regardless of the outcome of the interaction.

In law, bona fides denotes the mental and moral states of honesty and conviction regarding either the truth or the falsity of a proposition, or of a body of opinion; likewise regarding either the rectitude or the depravity of a line of conduct.

Skeptics in Raphael's School of Athens painting. Pyrrho is #4 and Timon #5

Pyrrhonism

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School of philosophical skepticism founded by Pyrrho in the fourth century BCE.

School of philosophical skepticism founded by Pyrrho in the fourth century BCE.

Skeptics in Raphael's School of Athens painting. Pyrrho is #4 and Timon #5
Pyrrho of Elis, marble head, Roman copy, Archaeological Museum of Corfu
Map of Alexander the Great's empire and the route he and Pyrrho took to India
Balance scales in equal balance are the symbol of Pyrrhonism

Pyrrhonists dispute that the dogmatists – which includes all of Pyrrhonism's rival philosophies – have found truth regarding non-evident matters.

Coherence theory of truth

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Coherence theories of truth characterize truth as a property of whole systems of propositions that can be ascribed to individual propositions only derivatively according to their coherence with the whole.

Coherence theories of truth characterize truth as a property of whole systems of propositions that can be ascribed to individual propositions only derivatively according to their coherence with the whole.

According to one view, the coherence theory of truth regards truth as coherence within some specified set of sentences, propositions or beliefs.

Dogen

Two truths doctrine

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Dogen

The Buddhist doctrine of the two truths differentiates between two levels of satya (Sanskrit; Pali: sacca; word meaning "truth" or "reality") in the teaching of the Śākyamuni Buddha: the "conventional" or "provisional" (saṁvṛti) truth, and the "ultimate" (paramārtha) truth.

Portrait of Avicenna on an Iranian postage stamp

Avicenna

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His most famous works are The Book of Healing, a philosophical and scientific encyclopedia, and The Canon of Medicine, a medical encyclopedia which became a standard medical text at many medieval universities and remained in use as late as 1650.

His most famous works are The Book of Healing, a philosophical and scientific encyclopedia, and The Canon of Medicine, a medical encyclopedia which became a standard medical text at many medieval universities and remained in use as late as 1650.

Portrait of Avicenna on an Iranian postage stamp
Map of Khurasan and Transoxiana
Coin of Majd al-Dawla ((r. 997 – 1029)), the amir (ruler) of the Buyid branch of Ray
Coin of Ala al-Dawla Muhammad ((r. 1008 – 1041)), the Kakuyid ruler of Isfahan
The Mausoleum of Avicenna, Hamadan, Iran
Canons of medicine book from Avicenna, Latin translation located at UT Health of San Antonio
Skull of Avicenna, found in 1950 during construction of the new mausoleum
Inside view of the Avicenna Mausoleum, designed by Hooshang Seyhoun in 1945–1950
A monument to Avicenna in Qakh (city), Azerbaijan
Image of Avicenna on the Tajikistani somoni
The statue of Avicenna in United Nations Office in Vienna as a part of the Persian Scholars Pavilion donated by Iran

Avicenna referred to the living human intelligence, particularly the active intellect, which he believed to be the hypostasis by which God communicates truth to the human mind and imparts order and intelligibility to nature.