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Aletheia or Alethia (; ) is truth or disclosure in philosophy. Originating in Ancient Greek philosophy, the term was explicitly used for the first time in the history of philosophy by Parmenides in his poem On Nature, in which he contrasts it with doxa (opinion).
It was revived in the works of 20th-century philosopher Martin Heidegger. Although it is often translated as "truth", Heidegger argued that it is distinct from common conceptions of truth.
is variously translated as "unconcealedness", "[[disclosure|world disclosure]]", "revealing", or "unhiddenness". It also means "reality".. It is the [[antonym]] of , which literally means "forgetting", "forgetfulness"..
In Greek mythology, was personified as a Greek goddess, Aletheia, the goddess of Truth. She was a daughter of Zeus. Her Roman equivalent is Veritas.
Heidegger gave an etymology analysis of aletheia and drew out an understanding of the term as "unconcealedness". Thus, aletheia is distinct from conceptions of truth understood as statements which accurately describe a state of affairs (correspondence), or statements which fit properly into a system taken as a whole (coherence). Instead, Heidegger focused on the elucidation of how an ontology "world" is disclosed, or opened up, in which things are made intelligible for human beings in the first place, as part of a Semantic holism structured background of meaning.
Heidegger began his discourse on the reappropriation of aletheia in his magnum opus, Being and Time (1927),Heidegger, M. Being and Time. translated by Joan Stambaugh, Albany, State University of New York Press, 1996, Introduction, Chapter II, §7b. and expanded on the concept in his Introduction to Metaphysics. Chapter II, § 1. For more on his understanding of aletheia, see Poetry, Language, Thought, in particular the essay entitled The Origin of the Work of Art, which describes the value of the work of art as a means to open a "clearing" for the appearance of things in the world, or to disclose their meaning for human beings.According to Heidegger, art "gives things their look, and human beings their outlook." From The Origin of the Work of Art. Heidegger revised his views on aletheia as truth, after nearly forty years, in the essay "The End of Philosophy and the Task of Thinking," in On Time and Being.
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