Belief is a personal truth, not necessarily absolute truth. Continuing with my ponderings on this matter, I have to say it is complicated because truth’s elasticity depends on context and field.

Thus conceived, truth is not a property, or merely a property, but an attitude, a way of being in the world. Martin Heidegger appears to take this idea further still: ...

But let’s be clear: honesty is not a proxy for truth. In today’s politics, the problem of mistaking honesty for truth is particularly acute.

Table of Contents. Table of Contents. Trust and Distrust in America. 1. How Americans see problems of trust. 2. ... (69%) say it is not hard to determine the truth when talking with people they know, ...