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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).
The ten-volume Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy mentions it only once, in the article "Lambert, Johann Heinrich (1728–77)": Part Two of the Neues Organon is the 'Alethiology or Doctrine of Truth'. Lambert’s key concern here is with the nature and function of the simple concepts that serve as the building blocks for the logical ...
Alice Liddell as the goddess Aletheia, photographed by Julia Margaret Cameron in 1872. 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.
(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.
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 ...
In many Gnostic systems, various emanations of God are known by such names as One, Monad, Aion teleos (αἰών τέλεος "The Broadest Aeon"), Bythos (βυθός, "depth" or "profundity"), Arkhe (ἀρχή, "the beginning"), Proarkhe (προαρχή, "before the beginning") and as Aeons (which are also often named and may be paired or grouped).
Aletheia (ἀλήθεια) is truth or disclosure in philosophy. Aletheia may also refer to: 259 Aletheia, a large asteroid; Aletheia, 2013 album by Hope for the Dying "Aletheia" (Person of Interest), an episode of the TV series Person of Interest; Aletheia M. D., author of the 1897 Rationalist's Manual
Orthotes (Greek: ὀρθότης "rightness") is a concept defined by Martin Heidegger as "an eye's correctness" or, the passage from the physical eyes to the eyes of the intellect. [1]