“What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.”
- Francis Bacon, Essays, “Of Truth” (1597, 1625)

To say that “there is no truth” is, petitio principii, to beg the question that it can be known absolutely. In this, it would take a very great philosopher to know the absolute truth; and yet every day the most casual persons take oaths to “tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth”; which probably comes about as close to the absolute truth as may be conceived. At the trial of Jesus, Pontius Pilate asked: “What is truth?” Interestingly, Christ did not answer the question; and in that pregnant pause between thought and decision, there is perhaps more truth than what is written in all of the gospels.