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Aletheia or Alethia (/ æ l ɪ ˈ θ aɪ. ə /; [1] Ancient Greek: ἀλήθεια) 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).
Alethea is an English-language female first name derived from the Ancient Greek feminine noun ἀλήθεια, alḗtheia, 'truth'. Aletheia was the personification of truth in Greek philosophy. Alethea was not in use as a name prior to the 1500s, and likely originated when English Puritans started using it as a virtue name.
(This is Heidegger's usual reading of aletheia as Unverborgenheit, "unconcealment".) [1] It is closely related to the notion of world disclosure, the way in which things get their sense as part of a holistically structured, pre-interpreted background of meaning. Initially, Heidegger wanted aletheia to stand for a re-interpreted definition of truth.
"Aletheia" (Person of Interest), an episode of the TV series Person of Interest; Aletheia M. D., author of the 1897 Rationalist's Manual; Aletheia University, a university in New Taipei, Taiwan; Alethia, a poetic adaptation of the Book of Genesis into Latin by Claudius Marius Victorius; Aletheia, the Greek version of Veritas, the Roman goddess ...
In Roman mythology, Veritas (Classical Latin: [ˈweː.rɪ.t̪aːs]), meaning Truth, is the Goddess of Truth, a daughter of Saturn (called Cronus by the Greeks, the Titan of Time, perhaps first by Plutarch), and the mother of Virtus. She is also sometimes considered the daughter of Jupiter (called Zeus by the Greeks), [2] or a creation of ...
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows is an English word-construction project by John Koenig, seeking to coin and define neologisms for emotions not yet described in language. [1] The project was launched as a website and YouTube channel, but was later compiled into a printed dictionary in 2021.
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The only myth in which Apate appeared was that of the affair between Zeus, king of the gods, and Semele, a Theban princess who bore him the god of wine, Dionysus.After knowing this infidelity of her husband, Hera sought the help of Apate in her scheme of punishing the mortal paramour of Zeus.