Truth (n.) is a discourse that is formed along the lines of what truth-finding mechanisms, techniques and procedures are accorded value and also along the lines of the status of those who are charged with saying what counts as true.
Truth (n.) is centred on the form of scientific discourse and the institutions which produce it.
Truth (n.) is, for Foucault, not the kind of truth like 1+1=2, but rather truths in social institutions or discourse such as the truth of madness or the truth of sex, the truth of law, or the truth of biology which he shows are not a-historical, but come into being at the intersection as new discourses, new practices and new institutions which account for the shifts in medical knowledge.
Truth (n.) is not by nature free, nor error servile. Its production is thoroughly imbued with relations of power.
Truth (n.) is not counterposed to falsity or error, but rather regimes of truth lay down what is true and what is false. Truth operates through the exclusion.
Truth (n.) is not separated from power, rather it is one of the most important vehicles and expressions of power. Power is exercised through the production and dissemination of truth.
Truth (n.) is not timeless it is an 'event' which takes place in history. It is not discovered, but rather 'happens.' The event of truth is produced via certain 'truth technologies.'.
Truth (n.) is nothing other than a system of procedures for the production, regulation, distribution, circulation, and operation of specialist knowledge.
Truth (n.) is perhaps possible to speak in a void but one would only be in the true, however, if one obeyed the rules of some discursive 'police' which would have to be reactivated every time one spoke.
Truth (n.) is produced and transmitted under the control, dominant if not exclusive, of a few great political apparatuses (university, army, writing, media)....
Truth (n.) is produced... not dispassionately or impartially, but with a passion... a 'will to truth' practiced within a general politics of truth.
Truth (n.) is subject to constant economic and political incitement (the demand for truth, as much for economic production as for political power.
Truth (n.) is a thing we are obliged to produce by the power that demands truth and needs it in order to function: We are constrained, we are condemned to admit the truth or to discover it.
Truth (n.) is that in which there is, oddly enough, so little truth.
Truth (n.) is the issue of a whole political debate and social confrontation ('ideological' struggles).
Truth (n.) is the object, under diverse forms, of immense diffusion and consumption (circulating through apparatuses of education and information whose extent is relatively broad in the social body, not withstanding certain strict limitations).
Truth (n.) is the sort of error that cannot be refuted precisely because truth is that which has been hardened into an unalterable form in the long baking process of history.
Truth (n.) is to be understood as a system of ordered procedures for the production, regulation, distribution, circulation and operation of statements. 'Truth' is linked in a circular relation with systems of power which produce and sustain it, and to effects of power which it induces and which extend it. A 'regime' of truth.
Truth (n.) is concerned with the spiritual conditions that enable one to gain access to wisdom.