# Truth **Domain:** American Trust Value **System:** [[wiki/American Character|American Character]] ## Definition Truth is loyalty to reality above vanity, ideology, convenience, and inherited scripts. It requires observation, source discipline, accurate language, and revision when evidence changes. In intelligence work, truth also requires separating observation, inference, confidence, and decision. A nation remains capable when its institutions can correct the picture before acting upon it. ## Place in the American System Truth is developed from [[american/American Character - Value 05 - Truth|American Character - Value 05 - Truth]] and belongs to [[collections/American|the American Collection]]. Its role is to keep one stable concept available across doctrine, character, comportment, material culture, intelligence participation, and alliance work without collapsing those levels into one another. ## Relationships [[wiki/Civic Literacy|Civic Literacy]] · [[wiki/Civic Intelligence Literacy|Civic Intelligence Literacy]] · [[wiki/Trustworthy Telemetry|Trustworthy Telemetry]] ## Sources / Provenance The governing source is [[american/American Character - Value 05 - Truth|American Character - Value 05 - Truth]]; the wider architecture is routed through [[wiki/American System|American System]].