Truth is an abstract concept that is difficult to define. The term comes from the Latin verĭtas and is associated with the conformity of what is said with what is thought or felt. For example: if a person intends to sell his house and, when asked, answers “I would never sell my house”, he is not telling the truth (and therefore lying, which is the opposite of the truth). .
Truth is also conformity of things with the concept that is formed of them in the mind: “It is true, the road is in poor condition”, “What we assumed turned out to be true: the owner of the company intends to declare bankruptcy”. The way to understand the truth is as a judgment that cannot be denied rationally. If someone says “This table weighs five kilos” and, after weighing it, confirms that weight on the scale, no one can say that the statement was not true.
In this sense, it should be noted that he speaks of what is known as a truism or a true truism. In colloquial language this expression is used, which begins to refer to all that truth that is well known and that, therefore, it is considered silly to have to say it. A clear example of this meaning would be the following sentence: “In his oral presentation to the class, the student said a truism: we all end up dying.” There are also other very common expressions that also make use of the concept that we are analyzing. This would be the case of “the truth as fists”, which is used to refer to the obvious. Likewise, there is the phrase “a truth like a temple”. In this case it is usually used to refer to what is absolutely obvious and therefore cannot be refuted in any way. The actual existence of something is also associated with the truth: “Is this dog real?” , “I want to buy a real battery, I’m tired of trying with boxes and buckets. “If the dog or the battery is not real, it does not mean that it does not exist, but that it is something different from what one imagines as a real dog or battery (it can be a toy dog and a battery improvised with other elements). In addition to all this, we cannot ignore the use of the term that concerns us in areas such as cinema. Thus, for example, we find films like “The Two Faces of Truth.” It was in 1996 when it was released, directed by Gregory Hoblit and starring Richard Gere and Eduard Norton. In it we are told how a lawyer defends a young man who was arrested for killing an archbishop who allegedly sexually abused him and his companions. Finally, truths are clear expressions with which someone is reprimanded or corrected: “I’ll tell you a great truth: no one with your attitude goes over the line in life.”
