File spoon-archives/phillitcrit.archive/phillitcrit_1998/phillitcrit.9805, message 22


Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 11:40:54 -0400 (EDT)
From: Howard Hastings <hhasting-AT-osf1.gmu.edu>
Subject: Re: PLC: Truth and its friends


On Wed, 13 May 1998, Reg Lilly wrote:
> 	I think here it might be worthwhile thinking of the different senses of truth. 
> The 'standard' versions include the popular and modern conception of truth as
> correspondence of idea/thought/statement to thing, truth as coherence which is
> (in my reading) a verion of correspondence that proceeds probablistically and
>  and the aletheic conception of truth whose
> most famous representative would be Heidegger -- a conception of truth as
> 'revealment.'  The former seem to have social-historical implications.  The
> latter seems less so; more 'private' if you will.

I don't see how the Alethic truth could be more private than the others.
Doesn't revealment occur within discourse, within a specific mode
of Dasein?

hh



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