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 --- from list phillitcrit-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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