Gadamer saw truth as rather like riding a bicycle: one has to learn to balance many forces in a dynamic, delicate, forward-movement through the environment. This chapter frames the traditional understanding of Gadamer’s idea of truth within his wider historical narrative of holism and science, and his larger theory of meaning expounded through the analogy of ‘play’. His revised conception shows us that our constant work towards understanding the truths of the world entails a constant evolution of oneself, in which truth does not so much bend to our subjective biases as call us to change our own horizon. It also requires an open attitude towards mystery, allowing what we can never know or fully capture to remain a part of our experience in its own oblique way. In this we see that Gadamer is in sympathy with the views of Jacques Derrida, yet sees a more communal, dynamic and creative force at work in language.