Following Soren Kierkegaard and other existential philosophers, some have insisted that the truth is what is relevant to our existence or life and false if it is not. Truth is subjectivity, Kierkegaard said; truth is livable. As Martin Buber stated, truth is found in persons, not in propositions.
However, even if truth is existential in some sense, not all truth fits into the existential category. There are many kinds of truth, physical, mathematical, historical and theoretical. But if truth by its very nature is found only subjectively in existential relevance then none of these could be true. What is true will be relevant, but not everything relevant is true. A pen is relevant to an atheist writer. And a gun is relevant to a murder. But this does not make the former true nor the latter good. A truth about life will be relevant to life. But not everything relevant to one's life will be true.
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