[Maxel]

Originally Posted by ErikJohnson

But it seems Maxel meant something altogether different by those words. And if he coined the phrase, then I suppose it's up to him to define it any way he pleases. (Although I think your attempt at a definition made more sense in light of the original context.)

I didn't coin the phrase- I took it from Neil A. Maxwell. He explains it better than I can here:

"So far as is known, the question Pilate put to Jesus, apparently without expecting the Savior to answer--'What is truth?'--has been answered only once: the Lord later said, '...truth is knowledge of things as they are, and as they were, and as they are to come.' Truth is a knowledge of reality of 'things.' Some realities are transitory and inconsequential; some realities maintain themselves everlastingly, or longitudinally, over vast spans of time. In the hierarchy of truth, therefore, some truths describe those realities which persist from age to age--which are more significant than fleeting facts. A knowledge of such central realities as the existence of God and his presiding and purposeful role in the universe, the great rescue mission of his Son Jesus Christ, and of man's co-eternality with our Heavenly Father is sovereign sense! Other gradations of truth reflect knowledge of those things which are often important, but passing and proximate." — Neal A. Maxwell, "The Smallest Part", p.4 - p.5