CHAPTER V.OF TRUTH IN GENERAL.
1.

What Truth is.
WHAT is truth?
was an inquiry many ages since; and it being that which all mankind either do, or pretend to search after, it cannot but be worth our while carefully to examine wherein it consists; and so acquaint ourselves with the nature of it, as to observe how the mind distinguishes it from falsehood.
2.

A right joining or separating of signs, i.e.either Ideas or Words.
Truth, then, seems to me, in the proper import of the word, to signify nothing but THE JOINING OR SEPERATING OF SIGNS, AS THE THINGS SIGNIFIED BY THEM DO AGREE OR DISAGREE ONE WITH ANOTHER.

The joining or separating of signs here meant, is what by another name we call PROPOSITION.

So that truth properly belongs only to propositions: whereof there are two sorts, viz.