On Mon, 9 Sep 1996, Iain Thomson wrote:
> There is no measure of the measure; no truth of truth. But what
> Heidegger does, following Hegel's insights into the historicity of
> truth, is to show that what we take as truth has a history; the
> contemporary idea of truth as a correct assertion is a refinement of
> the older view of truth as the adequate correspondence of assertion
> with that about which it asserts, etc. What Heidegger adds is that
> all of these notions of truth rely on and logically presuppose the
> idea of truth as disclosure, un-concealment.
Heidegger thinks there is a measure to truth. He calls it the essence of
the truth. Otherwise his rejection of truth as correspondence makes no
sense (or it's spurious). But of course, you've noted that above.
Chris
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> There is no measure of the measure; no truth of truth. But what
> Heidegger does, following Hegel's insights into the historicity of
> truth, is to show that what we take as truth has a history; the
> contemporary idea of truth as a correct assertion is a refinement of
> the older view of truth as the adequate correspondence of assertion
> with that about which it asserts, etc. What Heidegger adds is that
> all of these notions of truth rely on and logically presuppose the
> idea of truth as disclosure, un-concealment.
Heidegger thinks there is a measure to truth. He calls it the essence of
the truth. Otherwise his rejection of truth as correspondence makes no
sense (or it's spurious). But of course, you've noted that above.
Chris
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