The oldest name for truth is ALETHEIA
The root: LETHE: hiddenness, concealment, coveredness, veiledness.
The A has a privative function.
The whole word essentially can be rendered as:
un-hiddenness
un-concealment
dis-closure
dis-covery
re-velation
The elemental Greeks viewed truth as violent and uncanny spoliation
Things wrenched from hiddenness and exposed to the light
Show me what they really are
Our words for Truth are much more banal...
but the original Greek insight still lingers in our truth
No less than the Greek ALETHEIA
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