Everyday life contains many truth games.
The social processes and institutions that establish power, expertise, and authority also generate truths. In deference to their formal structure and their internal rationality, but in a spirit of agnosticism concerning their claims, one against the other, to the Truth, we can call these procedures truth games. We seek the truth through the courts, in scientific laboratories, in our religious institutions, and in private from those we love. Each of these processes gives rise to truths, more or less generally accepted but not necessarily compatible with one another. In large part, we accept the differences between them and, once we have been acclimatized, we know reasonably well the different rules, the different answers, the different prohibitions and failures of courtesy, taste, and etiquette proper to each.