Truth: Scientific Facts, Philosophical Perception, or Simple Fiction Human beings search for truth in all their endeavors, however, the truth eludes us. We search for meaning in every relationship, in every event of our lives, in every worldly event, for every waking moment. Let's search. Truth, as defined by Wikipedia, is often used to mean being in agreement with facts or reality, or faithfulness to an original, standard, or ideal. Truth can also often be used in modern contexts to refer to an idea of ​​“truth to oneself” or authenticity” (Wikipedia, 2015). Truth is the search for understanding resulting from the culmination of life experiences, beliefs and certainties that are consistent with what we know to be in harmony with the facts or reality as we understand it today “Being true is a mysterious and suspicious property” (Fisher, 2014). truth. This article considers scientific facts and theories, use of language and social norms, philosophical beliefs, and morality, to determine what truth really is. The science behind the truth Scientists prove theories by testing situations a series of times to determine whether the results are typical and consistent over time. When a theory is consistent it becomes a scientific law, for example Newton's law of physics. A scientific law is a proven truth. Descartes argues that “all clear and distinct ideas are true” (Flage, 2014), therefore, in science, clear and distinct ideas are truths according to Descartes. Furthermore, he states that “a clear and distinct idea is materially true if and only if it is coherent and therefore capable of representing a real object” (Flage, 2014). Road and... middle of paper... reality, scientific proof of the theory or something more prophetic? Nietzsche asks: what then is truth? A mobile army of metaphors, metonymies and anthropomorphisms: in short, a sum of human relationships that have been improved, transposed and embellished poetically and rhetorically, and which after long use seem firm, canonical and obligatory for a people. (1954) Truth is the pursuit of knowledge resulting from the culmination of life experiences, beliefs, and certainties that are consistent with what we know to be in harmony with the facts or reality as we understand it today. No point of view can be credited with defining the truth, since the truth may not be within our reach. “If knowledge is justified true belief, then it would seem that all true beliefs of a consistent believer constitute knowledge” (Davidson, 1986). “There is more to truth than our concept of it” (Fisher, 2014).