If by being right we simply mean experienced things in a certain way,
then Aristotle WAS right. But I think that the truth of which Heidegger
speaks precedes the domain in which correctness and incorrectness,
correspondence and noncorrespondence take place. It's not supposed to
supplant conceptions of objective truth but rather to ground them in
the soil which the presuppose and which nourishes them, namely the fact
that you have to have a thing disclosed to you BEFORE you can worry about
its status vis-a-vis truth or falsity. Maybe we'd be better off
distinguishing disclosure from truth (traditional truth here) instead of
using the same word truth, Wahrheit, aletheia to refer to truth as
disclosure and truth as correctness.
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