From: "Aramrat" <crifasi-AT-flash.net>
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1998 23:57:46 +0000
Subject: Re: truth, disclosedness, obscurity


Peder wrote:

> the problem seems to be that Heidegger identifies disclosure in
> general and truth. He does not distinguish between true and false
> disclosure (If he does please let me know where). At least there is
> a fundamental ambiguity in his work. How can the gold be anything
> but true if it is disclosed and Heidegger says that any disclosure
> is truth ?

If I understand Heidegger correctly, it is not that disclosure cannot
be false; rather, it is that falsity (in the sense you mean above) is
itself posterior to disclosure. In other words, the very appearance of
something as false depends on a prior disclosure. So truth and falsity
in the sense you mean above depend on disclosure in the first place.
So the objection would be putting the cart before the horse, since it
is asking whether there can be a false disclosure.

Anthony Crifasi


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