The old latin proverb says $"$In vino veritas", which can be translated as $"$In wine lies truth". The truth$-$table is the proverbial table under which you drink yourself if you absorb too much truth from your wine consumption.

A truth table is an array that lists all the possible truth$-$value assignments of the simple statements that we find in a compound statement or argument, and that, for each possible combination, allows you to find find the truth$-$value of truth$-$functional compound statements.

A truth table is a sort of logical diagram that can't be used to study properties of statements and arguments.

The great American writer Ernest Hemingway once wrote: "All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know." In memory of these great words, logicians refer to the piece of furniture on which he wrote those words by the name "truth table".