1. Preliminary Definition. The correlative terms of truth and wisdom have long been seen as the goal of effort in knowledge. Truth suggests primarily the spontaneity and the methodical accuracy of the act of knowledge, while wisdom suggests on the contrary the sovereign dominion of the longed-for coming of truth. But each of the concepts so strongly suggests the other that they can be defined in terms of each other, so that some pre-understanding of them may be arrived at. Wisdom is the truth beyo…