The question "What is truth?" is perhaps the hardest one ever posed. Science is based on the correspondence theory of truth, namely, that truth corresponds to reality. But others say that truth is ...

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. –Thoreau Truth tends to lead to successful action. In that much, truth has instrumental value. But truth also has intrinsic value. Given the ...

French philosopher René Descartes once wrote, “To doubt everything is the first step toward truth.” The statement, simple on the surface, sits at the heart of modern philosophy and scientific thinking ...

The basic definition of "truth," according to Merriam-Webster's handy dictionary, is "the body of real things, events and facts." But what does that actually mean? Next week, On Point will air a ...

Susan Stebbing’s 1939 work is just as relevant today as it was then. National Portrait Gallery, London via Creative Commons, CC BY-NC It is often said that we live in a “post-truth” era. It is unclear ...

Lewis Baldwin is a Vanderbilt University professor emeritus of religious studies. Lewis Baldwin was surprised to find little scholarship on the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s philosophy of ...

If I wrote “The first sentence in this article is a lie”, is this sentence true, or is it a lie? And, if a liar declares “I am lying”, is the liar telling the truth? In philosophy and logic this is ...