Truth as correspondence

>It is clear that Heidegger sees Kant's Copernican Revolution as
>requiring a correspondence theory of truth, is it equally as clear
>that Heidegger rejects such a conception of truth?
>
>--Erik

Some notes from my thesis:

Truth as correspondence becomes a secondary phenomenon in *Being and Time*,
and is grounded in the disclosive movement of Dasein's understanding.
Heidegger posits the disclosedness of Dasein, in the sense of the
dis-closive truth of aletheia, as the fundamental locus of 'truth', against
the derivative traditional notion of the truth of the logical proposition.
That is, against the metaphysical notions that "the 'locus' of truth is
assertion (judgment)" and "that the essence of truth lies in the
'agreement' of the judgment with its object" (B&T, p. 257). The assertion
of a truth about some 'thing' presupposes the fact that beings must already
have been disclosed in order to make an assertion about them. What is at
stake in the 'truth' of being is not merely some logically valid meaning or
delimitation of the verb 'being', for assertion "is not the primary 'locus'
of truth.... assertion is grounded in Dasein's uncovering, or rather in its
disclosedness" (p. 269).

Perhaps, in order for a judgement to correspond truthfully with its object,
the objectivity of the object must already have been understood in some
sense or other, and with it the subjectivity of the asserting subject or
ego cogito. Correspondence would then be a secondary phenomenon of truth
founded on the subject/object dualism, and for Heidegger this seems to be a
problem with all metaphysical thinking.




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The sense of the true and the good would not find expression in modern life
without the sense of the beautiful, which is nothing but the instinct of
rapidly appreciated perfection everywhere erupting
Auguste Comte


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Malcolm Riddoch
Murdoch University
Western Australia
Ph: + 61 9 228 0232
Email: riddoch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx




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