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 ...

Regarding Dennis D. Morgan’s letter, “Old days were better in many ways” (April 30): Mr. Morgan believes that global warming is a myth, yet offers us no evidence to support this. Global warming may be ...

Every so-called truth finally expresses no more than the power of some individual or group to impose its view of things on everyone else. So runs a common strain of postmodernist thinking. In the more ...

In this paper, I suggest an approach to the alleged problem with the Tarskian formal definition of truth: its enumerative character seems to make it unable to capture our pretheoretic general ...

How many fights have you been in because you thought you were right? How many wars have been fought over the pursuit of one’s definition of truth? It’s ridiculous. Fluid, subjective and hidden within ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the broad intersection of data and society. Anarchy and the primacy of free speech defined the early days of the ...