From: "Anthony Crifasi" <crifasi-AT-flash.net> Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1998 23:14:34 +0000 Subject: Re: truth, disclosedness, obscurity Peder wrote: > On page 218 Heidegger introduces a deeper concept of truth, truth as > disclosure. This happens when he says that the true statement shows the > being AS IT is in itself (Das gemeinte Seiende selbst zeigt sich SO WIE es > an ihm selbst ist (sz 218). This definition of truth leaves room for false > disclosure. If the being is shown as it is in itself it is true an if it > shows itself as it is not in itself it is untrue. > > When you (Anthony) write that disclosure is prior to truth, this is - if I > have any understanding of anything anymore - only correct when you think > truth as richtigkeit. The deeper concept of truth that Heidegger tries to > develop is identical to disclosure. The cart and the horse are the same. And > this seems to be what bothers Tugendhat. But it is "bothersome" only if you are still operating from truth as "richtigkeit." That is why I repeated the distinction I did. It is clear what it means for something to be disclosed as false. It is not clear what it could mean for there to be a "false disclosure." Every disclosure is some "manifestation" of a being, and some manifestations can be more primordial than others, but they are all manifestations of beings as they are. For example, Heidegger says that presence-at-hand is a deprived mode (compared to readiness-to-hand), not that it is a "false" mode. When you oppose disclosure of something "as it is in itself" to disclosure of something "not as it is in itself," you make a distinction which is inappropriate for this sense of truth, unless by "not as it is in itself" you mean "deprived" or "less primordial." And again, this is bothersome only if you are still operating from truth as richtigkeit. It is not as if disclosure is "infallible" (since it seems to be infallibility which bothers you). Rather, disclosure can be more or less derived or primordial. If you wish to call this "true and false disclosure," I suppose you can use those words, but you will find the consequences 'bothersome" only if you are still using the limited notions of truth and falsity here. Anthony Crifasi --- from list heidegger-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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