What Is Truth?

1	We exist and have knowledge within communities.
2	Knowledge is acquired by a community through the sense perceptions, logic, innate ideas, intuition, divine revelations or scientific observations of its individual members, as well as through shared communal experiences and conversations.
3	Knowledge is communicated to the members of a community by means of language, stories and myths.
4	The telling of myths and acting them out in rituals publicly and communally affirm the central truths of the community.
5	The truth of the knowledge of a community is verified in the long-term life of the community, based on its coherence and how well it works to account for the experience and relationships of the community.
6	Individuals within the community serve as witnesses to what potential knowledge is or isn’t true (and what previously-held truths need adjustment).
7	“Priests” serve as the keepers of the traditions of the community and are responsible for retelling its central myths and implementing its rituals.
8	“Prophets” (often priests themselves) serve as corrective agents, calling the community back to its central truths when it strays from them, but a prophet’s truth must also be tested within the context of the community.
9	The mythology of a community may sometimes be “translated” into the mythological language of another, but their mythologies do not always attest to the same truths.

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