Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up
and hurry off as if nothing happened.-- Winston Churchill

Truth can have a variety of meanings, from the state of being the case, the body of real things, events, facts, actuality, or fidelity to an original or to a standard. In archaic usage it could be fidelity, constancy or sincerity in action, character, and utterance. The term has no single definition about which a majority of professional philosophers and scholars agree, and various theories and views of truth continue to be debated. There are differing claims on such questions as what constitutes truth; what things aretruthbearers 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,relative, objective , or absolute. This website introduces the various perspectives and claims, both today and throughout history.