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Aletheia (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a conception of truth dependent not on the accuracy of representations in reality but on the act of disclosure, uncovering unconcealing. It concerns bringing things out of hiddenness and unforgetting.

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Aletheia (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠light always struggling with the powers of darkness, lodged in a field of strife. Openness is always threatened and defined against what threatens it.

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Aletheia (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠not a skeleton key that unlocks all the enigmas of thought. Rather, it is the enigma itself the matter of thought.

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Aletheia (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠not openness on any concrete subject.

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Aletheia (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the deep structure that clears the way for the history of being to follow. It is accessible to us as one aspect of the experience of being, but structurally aletheia is the very condition of possibility for being itself.

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Aletheia (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠truth as disclosure whereby disclosedness is the basic character of da-sein in accordance with which it is its there.

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Aletheia (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠truth, but it is perhaps best translated as this kind of unconcealment, the revealing manifestation of what is.

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Aletheia (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠available only to human being since only human being exists outside itself in the world, immersed in the play of absence and presence that unfolds in the course of history.

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Aletheia (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a term meaning ‘drawing something forgotten into visibility’. When the first human silently wondered what beings are, this was the first moment of unconcealment, and the true beginning of history.

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Aletheia (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠not something under human control, since unconcealment always requires concealment as well.

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Aletheia (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠un-hiddenness in hiddenness, a concept which is fatally lost when translated as veritas (truth). Its opposite is no longer the multiple forms of hiddenness but simply falsehood.

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Aletheia (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠an understanding of truth which is neither the correctness of assertions nor the unhiddenness of beings, but the interplay of that hiddenness and unhiddenness or, equivalently, the strife (eris) between earth and world.

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Aletheia (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the hidden “openness” in the midst of beings that grounds their unhiddenness.

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Aletheia (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a determination of entities themselves and not somehow—like correctness— a character of an assertion about them.

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Aletheia (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the Greek word for ‘truth’ but more literally ‘uncoveredness’, ‘unconcealment’. The ‘a’ in a-letheia, designates lack of lethe or concealment.