Truth is what they are looking for � that is the essence of science, religion, philosophy, law, and even personal relations. � Truth is the hard core of the thing, which is the object of their life-long endeavor. � But, when the thing is gone, then were is the hard core? � Feelings do not have hard cores! All we deal with are expressions and interpretations which are based on feelings � and now in the search of truth we can only emerge from one interpretation to another � �truth� never gets further than to the next interpretation.
Hence �truth� is a simile, one of the strongest of them all. And we need it, and it is all right � but we should not start believing in a simile, not take a metaphor as a real being.
Any meaningful use of the concept �true� means that it depicts a relation � and since it is a relation then it is never absolute. - A �truth� is never absolutely true under all conditions. - Maybe we can rest with this notion of truth. � But, even so there is not much we can do with it, because next enters all the human qualities that distort the picture: memory; taste, intentions etc.
There is no other truth than a truthful description of the how conscious life functions.
�Fact� is a concept that goes hand in hand with �truth� � they kind of need each other like the spouses in a happy marriage. The etymology is derived from a grammatical form of the Latin for �to do� or �to make�; literary it would mean �thing done�, the modern sense of the use being "thing known to be true" (www.etymonline.com). � Hence �facts� are the circumstances that have with authority been pronounced to be true. � And today people go about regarding �facts� as something more than other variables. � But maybe we should use the word �variable� instead of �fact� � would we lose something in certainty?
And now if we say that interpretation means that we exchange one expression for another � then this must be the truth.
And since expressions do not exist, people have the need to create the existence, and this is done by declaring expressions �true� or �false�, �factual or not�. � We see that these notions are creations of the imagination in finding a need to keep together the language originally developed for dealing with �things.�