—“Truth? I thought you just told the truth, and that’s it!”—

Well, you can speak honestly regardless of whether what you say is true.

It’s the level of falsification you apply and the warranty you put behind it.

Honest > Truthful > True > Analytically True > Tautological.

Honest(personal but not instrumental due diligence complete) > Truthful(instrumental Due diligence complete) > True(proper) > Analytic Truth(math, logic) > Tautological.

Man of us are honest, truthfulness takes time and effort, we rarely if ever know what’s true due to informational incompleteness, and tautology is meaningless repetition.