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the rumor that never needed a source and outlives every liar telling it.
means That which actually is the case — facts and reality as opposed to falsehood or error, and the quality of conforming to them.
from From Old English trēowth, meaning faithfulness, loyalty, or fidelity to a promise — built on trēowe, 'faithful, trustworthy,' the same root that gives us 'true' and 'trust.' That older sense is telling: 'truth' first meant being true to someone (keeping faith) before it came to mean being true to the facts. It's a cousin of the Old Norse tryggð, 'good faith,' and traces back to a Proto-Germanic root tied to the steadfastness of a tree — something firm, deep-rooted, hard to move.
- etymology
- From Old English treowth, meaning faithfulness and loyalty
- in courts
- Swearing to it predates the printing press
- physics quirk
- A quark flavor is literally named truth
- philosophy
- Three rival theories still argue what it even is
- survival rate
- Outlasts every empire built on hiding it
the pentagon papers — daniel ellsberg leaked 7,000 pages of classified vietnam war documents to the new york times in 1971
edward snowden nsa revelations — nsa contractor exposed mass surveillance programs affecting millions globally starting june 2013
watergate investigation — washington post reporters uncovered nixon administration crimes through 'deep throat' source, leading to his 1974 resignation