Tarski's indefinability Theorem, informally, the theorem states that arithmetical truth cannot be defined in arithmetic. (Wikipedia) Cheryl's corollary: truth cannot be defined in truth.
Today when I first opened my yahoo account the first three friends blogs I saw all were talking about truth. I thought, truth must be the word for today. What is truth really? We all see the world through our own lenses and those lenses are made up of the sum total of our life experience. No two people will see the same event in the same way. So is there such a thing as an absolute truth or is truth determined by a predominance of opinion towards a thing? I tend to think that truth is like a stick you pick up. One end is truth and the other end is un-truth and that the increments within that range are all available for you to access depending on where your lenses are focusing at the moment. It doesn't help me to think truth is what is real, because I believe that reality is just an interpretation, again through my/your lenses. We have a consensual reality in which we all believe that ground is below and sky is above, and gravity works, but I'm not sure that much else isn't malleable.
Merriam Webster defines truth as:
Pronunciation: 'trüth
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural truths 
/'trü[th]z, 'trüths/
Etymology: Middle English trewthe, from Old English trEowth fidelity; akin to Old English trEowe faithful -- more at TRUE
1 a archaic : FIDELITY, CONSTANCY b : sincerity in action, character, and utterance
2 a (1) : the state of being the case : FACT (2) : the body of real things, events, and facts : ACTUALITY (3) often capitalized : a transcendent fundamental or spiritual reality b : a judgment, proposition, or idea that is true or accepted as true <truths of thermodynamics> c : the body of true statements and propositions
3 a : the property (as of a statement) of being in accord with fact or reality b chiefly British : TRUE 2 c : fidelity to an original or to a standard
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