artifact vs truth

artifact

noun
  • Something viewed as a product of human agency or conception rather than an inherent element. 

  • An object, such as a tool, ornament, or weapon of archaeological or historical interest, especially such an object found at an archaeological excavation. 

  • Any object in the collection of a museum. May be used sensu stricto only for human-made objects, or may include ones that are not human-made. 

  • A perceptible distortion that appears in an audio or video file or a digital image as a result of applying a lossy compression or other inexact processing algorithm. 

  • An appearance or structure in protoplasm due to death, the method of preparation of specimens, or the use of reagents, and not present during life. 

  • An object made or shaped by some agent or intelligence, not necessarily of direct human origin. 

  • A finding or structure in an experiment or investigation that is not a true feature of the object under observation, but is a result of external action, the test arrangement, or an experimental error. 

  • An object made or shaped by human hand or labor. 

truth

noun
  • The state or quality of being true to someone or something. 

  • Conformity to fact or reality; correctness, accuracy. 

  • Something acknowledged to be true; a true statement or axiom. 

  • True facts, genuine depiction or statements of reality. 

  • Conformity to rule; exactness; close correspondence with an example, mood, model, etc. 

  • That which is real, in a deeper sense; spiritual or ‘genuine’ reality. 

  • In the game truth or dare, the choice to truthfully answer a question put forth. 

verb
  • To tell the truth. 

  • To make exact; to correct for inaccuracy. 

How often have the words artifact and truth occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )