[lit-ideas] Aletheia, or what has Truth to do with Oblivion?
- From: "Eric Dean" <ecdean99@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 02:28:19 +0000
JL writes:
"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."
I'm not sure that one has to conclude that the Greeks equated oblivion with
the false, nor even thought that oblivion must be false. If the true is
that which is revealed, false things are not revealed, i.e. obscured. That
does not mean that all things obscured are false...
Regards to all,
Eric Dean
Rockford IL
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