From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia - "What is truth?
A mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, and anthropomorphisms—in
short, a sum of human relations which have been enhanced,
transposed, and embellished poetically and rhetorically, and
which after long use seem firm, canonical, and obligatory to a
people: truths are illusions about which one has forgotten that
this is what they are; metaphors which are worn out and without
sensuous power; coins which have lost their pictures and now
matter only as metal, no longer as coins. --Friedrich Nietzsche
in "On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense", tr. Walter Kaufmann
The opposite of truth is falsehood, which, correspondingly, can
also take on a logical, factual, or ethical meaning. The concept
of truth is discussed and debated in several contexts, including
philosophy and religion. Many human activities depend upon the
concept, which is assumed rather than a subject of discussion,
including science, law, and everyday life. Various theories and
views of truth