What Is Truth?

1- What it truth?
2- Can we know truth?

#1- What is Truth ? [trooth] (plural truths [troothz, trooths]) n
1. true quality: correspondence to fact or reality
2. something factual: something that corresponds to fact or reality
spoke the truth

3. true statement: a statement that corresponds to fact or reality
4. obvious fact: something that is so clearly true that it hardly needs to be stated
5. something generally believed: a statement that is generally believed to be true
a religious truth

6. honesty: honesty, sincerity, or integrity
7. descriptive accuracy: accuracy in description or portrayal
a criticism that had an element of truth in it

8. conformity: adherence to a standard or law
9. loyalty: faithfulness to a person or a cause (dated)
10. U.K. accuracy: accuracy of alignment, setting, position, or shape (dated)

[Old English trçowth “faithfulness” (source also of troth )]
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In John 18:38 Pilate asked Jesus “What is truth?” in what was basically a rhetorical question on his part. He then went out to the crowd to try and get Jesus released because he found “no basis for a charge against him” John 19:6 …..

[What is truth?] Among the sages of that time there were many opinions concerning truth; and some had even supposed that it was a thing utterly out of the reach of men. Pilate perhaps might have asked the question in a mocking way; and his not staying to get an answer indicated that he either despaired of getting a satisfactory one, or that he was indifferent about it. This is the case with thousands: they appear desirous of knowing the truth, but have not patience to wait in a proper way to receive an answer to their question. (from Adam Clarke Commentary 0n John 18:38)