ABSTRACT
The question ‘What is Truth?’ is one which may be understood in several different ways, and before beginning our search for an answer, it will be well to be quite clear as to the sense in which we are asking the question. We may mean to ask what things are true: is science true? is revealed religion true? and so on. But before we can answer such questions as these, we ought to be able to say what these questions mean: what is it, exactly, that we are asking when we say, ‘is science true?’ It is this preliminary question that I wish to discuss. The question whether this or that is true is to be settled, if at all, by considerations concerning this or that, not by general considerations as to what ‘truth’ means; but those who ask the question presumably have in their minds already some idea as to what ‘truth’ means, otherwise the question and its answer could have no definite meaning to them.
