From: "henry sholar" <H_SHOLAR-AT-marta.uncg.edu> Date: Thu, 9 Jul 1998 9:38:13 EST Subject: truth/Re: In dubium revocari I would appreciate any comments or discussion this text might provoke on this list. Thanks, and kindest regards, henry We are asking the question of truth. The customary determination of truth runs: truth is the correctness of a representation, the correspondence of an assertion (a proposition) with a thing. Although in the course of the history of Western thinking, various opinions about knowledge and representation have arisen and have again and again debated each other and intermingled with each other, yet the same conception of truth as correctness of representation remains the standard. ... ... ... But in this self-evident determination of truth as correctness there lurks something worthy of questioning: that multiple-unitary openness of the things, of the region between things and humanity, of humanity to itself, and each to the other. If it were not for this openness, there could never occur a representing that conforms to a thing. For this conforming to...does not first create the openness of the things and the openness of humanity for what it might encounter. On the contrary, it settles into an openness already holding sway and does so, as it were, each time anew. This openness is therefore the ground of the possibility of correctness and as this ground it is something worthy of questioning and inquiry. At first it is unclear what it really is that we are referring to here and are calling openness. And that could only be one more reason to abandon the inquiry into what we say is worthy of questioning, especially if we recall that for two thousand years Western history has been satisfied with the ordinary conception of truth. _Basic Questions of Philosophy_, pp22-23 [sec. 9, recapitulation 2] --- from list heidegger-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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