What is Truth?

This is truly (!) a Frequently Asked Question. It seems that most truth-related posts/discussions that appear in the community can benefit from some background study.

Gathering all the great writings on this topic is impossible. There are way too many awesome resources related to it. I could only hope to give a short list of some of the interesting writings that anyone can find on-line by googling “what is truth.”


1- A popular article at http://phylosophynews.com (look at its bibliography too):

http://www.philosophynews.com/post/2015/01/29/What-is-Truth.aspx  

2- A collection of answers by different people in a philosophy magazine at http://philosophynow.org:

https://philosophynow.org/issues/86/What_Is_Truth


3- “Chapter 12 - Truth and Falsehood” in Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell

http://www.sparknotes.com/philosophy/problems/section12.rhtml

An analysis of the above-mentioned chapter

http://philosophy.lander.edu/intro/articles/correspondence-a.pdf


4- Truth entry at Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/truth/


5- Truth entry at Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

http://www.iep.utm.edu/truth/


6- Truth entry at Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth


7- Truth entry at Encyclopædia Britannica

https://www.britannica.com/topic/truth-philosophy-and-logic


8- An article on Philosophy - On Love of Wisdom from Truth & Reality that gives a summary of many points of views in the field with many interesting quotes.

http://www.spaceandmotion.com/Philosophy.htm


9- Nietzsche on Truth and Philosophy by Maudemarie Clark

http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/samples/cam034/90036094.pdf


10- Historical Introduction to Philosophy/Truth, Objectivity, and Relativism at Wikivercity.org

https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Historical_Introduction_to_Philosophy/Truth,_Objectivity,_and_Relativism


11- An interesting discussion on stackexchange.com about the difference between facts and truths

https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/8053/what-is-the-difference-between-fact-and-truth


12- If you feel inclined to buy books on the subject, you might want to consider Unifying the Philosophy of Truth, which “Offers up-to-date collection of essays on truth giving a unique view on contemporary research in the field”

ISBN13: 9789401796729


13- Truth in Philosophy by Barry Allan

ISBN13: 9780674910911


14- The Problem of Truth by Edward G. Ballard, Shannon DuBose, James K. Feibleman

ISBN10: 9401176418
ISBN13: 9789401176415


15- Truth by Pascal Engel

ISBN13: 9780773524613


16- What’s the Use of Truth? by Richard Rorty & Pascal Engel, Translated by William McCuaig

ISBN13: 9780231140140


17- Great quotes on truth

Wikiquote.org:
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Truth

noatable-quotes.com:
http://www.notable-quotes.com/t/truth_quotes.html

brainyquote.com:
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/topics/topic_truth.html