Temporal truth

Temporal Truth

Temporal truth is the discipline of representing facts with their time boundaries intact.

It asks when a claim was observed, when it was last verified, when it became true, when it stopped being true, and when it should be checked again.

Current truth and historical truth

Current truth should not erase historical truth. Historical truth should not pretend to be current.

twiki.us exists for that distinction.

Some facts need clocks

The more a fact depends on current-world state, the more it needs temporal metadata.

Time is not decoration. Time is part of the claim.