Abstract

In his early masterpiece Being and Time , Heidegger articulates a specific understanding of truth asunconcealment . This notion differs greatly from the modern view of truth, based on theclassical notion of logos apophanticos. Heidegger’s understanding of truth as disclosure or unconcealment, or alêtheia,has been written about largely in terms of the complete range of Heidegger’s work . However, I will specifically focus on the view Heidegger establishes inBeing and Time. In my interpretation, Heidegger claims that truth is not separable from the entities in the world,including the one who uncovers the entities and also itself, Dasein. I also contend that attempts to incorporate traditionalpropositional truth and Heidegger’s alêtheia, such as Wrathall , will fail, especially in terms of the theoreticalextraction of Being and Time’s pre-propositional theory of truth