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Truth is one of the oldest and most central subjects in the philosophical tradition. Its influence extends throughout the discipline, from the philosophy of language, where a longstanding idea is that understanding the meaning of a sentence involves knowing the conditions under which it is true and cooperative speakers are expected to speak the truth, to epistemology, where belief is considered to aim at the truth, among other places. However, truth may, of course, be partial. What one says or believes may be true about one subject matter, false about another. In this seminar, we seek a systematic understanding of the notion of partial truth, drawing on recent work in the framework of truthmaker semantics. We will then explore how various philosophical debates oriented around truth look when recast in a partial light.