Truth is the capacity to remain oriented toward what is actually the case, even when reality is inconvenient to our preferred story.
Truth is the capacity to remain oriented toward what is actually the case, even when reality is inconvenient to our preferred story.
Personally, this includes honesty with ourselves and others.
Epistemically, it includes evidence, correction and willingness to revise a belief when better information appears.
Truth requires both courage and humility because humans become attached to explanations. We build identities around them. We defend them socially.
The capacity for truth therefore includes the ability to say:
“I believed this.”
“I now know more.”
“I need to change my mind.”
That is not intellectual weakness. It is one of the clearest signs that thinking is still alive.