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The word truth has at least the following widely-recognized meanings:
- objective truth: a thing we will never know precisely but can only approach asymptotically as we better understand the mechanisms by which it operates
- most-likely truth: that which is best supported by the currently-available evidence
- believed truth: that for which there is a consensus belief within some group
- received truth: that which is held to be true because it has been received from an appropriate authority
Our Usage
By default, InstaGov uses "truth" in first and second senses – either objective truth or our current best approximation to it.