Date: Tue, 04 Nov 1997 17:45:38 -0500
From: Reg Lilly <rlilly-AT-scott.skidmore.edu>
Subject: Re: PLC: Aletheia [was "Deconstruction"]


Walter,
	You've got me pegged pretty much right.  Herr Headgear's notion of
Erschlossenheit.  The early Tugendhat (when attended his classes in the 70's)
wasn't yet so down on Heidegger as he later became.  But I believe there are
philosophical encycopediae that include aletheic truth as a theory of truth.  I
would hesitate to make it a theory of meaning (Bedeutung, Sinn) for at least one
reason.  Heidegger early on was after the Sinn des Seins, the meaning of Being,
but he pretty much leaves this behind with his "turn" in the 30's and 40's, so
that in the end, aletheia has to do with Ereignis/Enteignis, the
happening-disclosure of being and really can't be thought any longer in terms of
meaning.  So, although what you say below fits well with Being and Time, I would
suggest that the aletheic notion of truth goes well beyond what can be thought
of in its terms.  I've been rushed here -- sorry if I'm not being clear.

Regards,
Reg

Walter Okshevsky wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 3 Nov 1997, Reg Lilly wrote:
> snip
> >       'Truth' is perhaps more difficult.  But let me suggest that there are several
> > conceptions of truth -- the correpondence theory, the coherence theory, and the
> > alethetic theory.  Derrida would, for reasons similar to his critique of
> > meaning, criticize the first two (their just too idealistic!), and would hold,
> > in a Heideggerian manner, to the latter.  He certainly doesn't want to say that
> 
> Reg --
> Regarding your theories of truth, I've heard of the first two but not the
> "alethetic".  By this are you referring to Heidegger's  - or Headgear's
> (priceless!) -  notion of truth as "unconcealment" or "disclosure"
> (Erschlossenheit)? If so, is this really a theory of "truth" at all. (Some
> writers, Pietersma and Tugendhat, for example, claim H. to be completely
> confused here.) Wouldn't it be better thought of as a theory of meaning -
> one according to which entities are disclosed in their significance via
> their position within referential contexts of agency?
> I haven't looked at this literature for some time now, so please take it
> slowly.
> Best,
> W
> 
> Walter C. Okshevsky
> Memorial University
> 
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