Abstract

It is by way of clue but not argument that we remind ourselves that the etymology of "truth" and "true" takes us back to an old Anglo-Saxon word, "treowth" and the Old English "treowe" and "trywe" which mean "faithful" as well as "true," applying to friends and servants as well as to statements. Similarly, the Latin "veritas" and its modern Romantic language derivatives and the German root "Wahr" carry the meaning of "fidelity" as well as epistemic "correctness."