Date:          Thu, 9 Jul 1998 9:38:13 EST
Subject:       truth/Re:  In dubium revocari


I would appreciate 
any comments 
or discussion 
this text might 
provoke on this list.  

Thanks, 
and kindest regards,
henry


We are asking the question of truth.  The customary determination
 of truth runs:  truth is the correctness of a representation, the 
correspondence of an assertion (a proposition) with a thing.  
Although in the course of the history of Western thinking, 
various opinions about knowledge and representation have 
arisen and have again and again debated each other and 
intermingled with each other, yet the same conception of truth 
as correctness of representation remains the standard. ... 

... ...

But in this self-evident determination  of truth as correctness 
there lurks something worthy of questioning:  that multiple-unitary 
openness of the things, of the region between things and humanity, 
of humanity to itself, and each to the other.  If it were not for this 
openness, there could never occur a representing that conforms 
to a thing.  For this conforming to...does not first create the openness 
of the things and the openness of humanity for what it might encounter.  
On the contrary, it settles into an openness already holding sway and 
does so, as it were, each time anew.  This openness is therefore the 
ground of the possibility of correctness and as this ground it is something 
worthy of questioning and inquiry.  At first it is unclear what it really 
is that we are referring to here and are calling openness.  And that could 
only be one more reason to abandon the inquiry into what we say is 
worthy of questioning, especially if we recall that for two thousand 
years Western history has been satisfied with the ordinary 
conception of truth.

_Basic Questions of Philosophy_, pp22-23  
[sec. 9, recapitulation 2]



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