Well, the truth itself is the way things are, and like you're saying, there isn't so much we can do to further define that. It just is. But there's a second consideration, which is that humans make claims about the way things are.

Understanding the Context

These claims may be considered as sequences of characters, or noises, or perhaps patterns of mental activity. And we call some of these claims true, and other claims ... Truth can exist without language, because unlike language it is not dependent on the existence of humans. "There is no absolute truth because we as humans are restrained from ever knowing it" is fallacious, what humans can know imposes no restriction on what is.

Key Insights

And "this" will only be a way out of the paradox after it specifies which axioms of classical logic are supposed to be dropped, and shows that what is left is enough and otherwise reasonable. There are several options described in standard ... Your notion of truth is wrong. The way you put it sounds as if there is only one type of truth. There are clearly more than one.

Final Thoughts

For instance there are contingent truths and objective truths. They are not identical or even equivalent to each other. You can look into each one. A FACT is a scientific term that is also a bit emotional. A fact is supposed to be a claim that holds to reality ... Heidegger’s process-oriented concept of aletheia aka truth as "unconcealment" is closer to the second view you presented: the appearing itSelf of appearance, or the aRising rather than the arisen due to its universal emergent unconcealment as an opening up in which beings can show themselves as they are, who emphasizes the event of coming into presence as ready-to-hand rather than things as ...