[lit-ideas] Re: Aletheia, or what has Truth to do with Oblivion?
- From: "Cathy" <ckerwan@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 09:42:01 -0500
One year the nun assigned to my hall at MSV was Sister Aletheia.
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Subject: [lit-ideas] Aletheia, or what has Truth to do with Oblivion?
From:
_http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?l=a&p=8_
(http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?l=a&p=8)
_Alethea_ (http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Alethea)
fem. proper name, from Gk. aletheia "truth," from alethus "true," lit. "not
concealing," from priv. prefix a- "not" + lethe "forgetfulness, oblivion."
--- So the etymology agrees with Ginzburg's view. To tell the truth is to
fight against oblivion. And oblivions must, by definition, then be _false_.
Odd
view the Greeks had.
Cheers,
JL
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