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Single Idea 21953

[filed under theme 3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 1. Truth ]

Full Idea

We say things like 'he is a true friend'. Heidegger calls this kind of truth 'ontic truth' or the 'uncoveredness' of entities.

Gist of Idea

For Heidegger there is 'ontic' truth or 'uncoveredness', as in "he is a true friend"

Source

report of Martin Heidegger (On the Essence of Truth [1935]) by Mark Wrathall - Heidegger: how to read 7

Book Ref

Wrathall,Mark: 'Heidegger: how to read' [Granta 2005], p.73

A Reaction

[In his later essays] The example is very bad for showing a clear alternative meaning of 'true'. I presume it can only be explained in essentialist terms - an entity is 'true' if its appearance and behaviour conforms to its essence.

Related Idea

Idea 5644 In Hegel's logic it is concepts (rather than judgements or propositions) which are true or false [Hegel, by Scruton]

The 31 ideas with the same theme [whether truth exists, and what it is in general]:

10913 Truth is a matter of asserting correct combinations and separations [Aristotle]
10914 Simple and essential truth seems to be given, with further truth arising in thinking [Aristotle]
10916 Truth is either intuiting a way of being, or a putting together [Aristotle]
5728 The concept of truth was originated by the senses [Lucretius]
2673 There cannot be more than one truth [Cicero]
4748 Anselm of Canterbury identified truth with God [Anselm, by Engel]
23176 Truth is universal, but knowledge of it is not [Aquinas]
20621 Types of lying: Speak lies, intend lies, intend deception, aim at deceptive goal? [Aquinas, by Tuckness/Wolf]
21864 Truth is its own standard [Spinoza]
19333 A truth is just a proposition in which the predicate is contained within the subject [Leibniz]
12910 The predicate is in the subject of a true proposition [Leibniz]
8098 Truth consists of having the same idea about something that God has [Joubert]
5420 Truth is a property of a belief, but dependent on its external relations, not its internal qualities [Russell]
21953 For Heidegger there is 'ontic' truth or 'uncoveredness', as in "he is a true friend" [Heidegger, by Wrathall]
23884 Truth is a value of thought [Weil]
15471 Truth is a relation between a representation ('bearer') and part of the world ('truthmaker') [Martin,CB]
6276 'The rug is green' might be warrantedly assertible even though the rug is not green [Putnam]
4714 Putnam's epistemic notion of truth replaces the realism of correspondence with ontological relativism [Putnam, by O'Grady]
10837 It is part of the concept of truth that we aim at making true statements [Dummett]
6396 A sentence is held true because of a combination of meaning and belief [Davidson]
8820 Rules of reasoning precede the concept of truth, and they are what characterize it [Pollock]
6334 The function of the truth predicate? Understanding 'true'? Meaning of 'true'? The concept of truth? A theory of truth? [Horwich]
3883 A true proposition is consistent with every other true proposition [Scruton]
4701 To say a relative truth is inexpressible in other frameworks is 'weak', while saying it is false is 'strong' [O'Grady]
4703 The epistemic theory of truth presents it as 'that which is licensed by our best theory of reality' [O'Grady]
13252 Some truths have true negations [Beall/Restall]
15324 Semantic theories of truth seek models; axiomatic (syntactic) theories seek logical principles [Horsten]
15323 Truth is a property, because the truth predicate has an extension [Horsten]
16330 Truth-value 'gluts' allow two truth values together; 'gaps' give a partial conception of truth [Halbach]
16339 Truth axioms prove objects exist, so truth doesn't seem to be a logical notion [Halbach]
18819 The idea that there are unrecognised truths is basic to our concept of truth [Rumfitt]