Anselm of Canterbury's dialogue on truth — arguing that truth is a rightness perceptible only to the mind, and that all truth participates in the supreme Truth that is God.
Truth is rightness — a statement is true when it does what it ought (signifies what is); God is supreme Truth from which all particular truths depend. Distinguishes multiple senses of truth (propositional, practical, ontological).
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