Heideggerian truth is unconcealment, not mere statement-world correspondence

Evidence

Poets and artists ‘let things be’, but they also let things come out and show themselves. They help to ease things into ‘unconcealment’ (Unverborgenheit), which is Heidegger’s rendition of the Greek term alētheia, usually translated as ‘truth’. This is a deeper kind of truth than the mere correspondence of a statement to reality, as when we say ‘The cat is on the mat’ and point to a mat with a cat on it. Long before we can do this, both cat and mat must ‘stand forth out of concealedness’. They must un-hide themselves. — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 590

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines alētheia as unconcealment and contrasts it with correspondence-theory truth, a cornerstone concept for orientation.
• XREF: Connects to the pragmatic/verificationist critiques of correspondence truth found in James/Pierce, and to the pragmatic turn later in existentialism. — connects to: Heidegger rejects consciousness-as-container or intentional-aboutness models of mind — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 592; A self-consistent philosophy can be completely false while inconsistent systems hold truth — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 2213; Pure knowledge without a viewpoint is self-contradictory — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 836

Broader Connections

• Heidegger rejects consciousness-as-container or intentional-aboutness models of mind #expands (0.82) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 592
• A self-consistent philosophy can be completely false while inconsistent systems hold truth #expands (0.75) — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 2213
• Pure knowledge without a viewpoint is self-contradictory #expands (0.73) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 836