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A Regime of truth (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a historically specific mechanism which produces discourses that function as true in particular times and places.

A Regime of truth (n.) of ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠Islamic political martyrdom, which fascinated Foucault, measures truth not by facts, consistency or sincerity but by the readiness to die.

A Regime of truth (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠each society's general politics of truth: which discourses count as true, who may pronounce them, how the false is sorted out and punished.

Regime of truth (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠each society's general politics of truth: which discourses function as true, how true is told from false, and who has the status to say what counts as true.

Regime of truth (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠not merely ideological or superstructural: it was a condition of capitalism's formation, and it runs, slightly modified, in socialist countries too.

A Regime of truth (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the type of discourse which a society accepts and makes function as true. It provides the mechanisms, techniques, and determines the status-bears who enable the particular distinctions between true and false statements in said society.