ABSTRACT
The concept of truth is implicitly transcendental. Philosophy seeks to think and to understand truth. It does so either by thinking it as something which is not transcendent, or by constructing an understanding of a transcendent mode of being to be the bearer of truth, thereby losing the world and man unless these also are transposed in a wholly unbelievable or unbearably alienating way. Truth is unavoidably fundamental for philosophy; the problem is how to avoid thinking of it as foundational. Truth is explicated in terms of available propositions, which in turn are explicated in terms of theories within whose language they can be formulated and understood. Location of truth in a movement of being rather than in the proposition makes possible the resolution of many philosophical knots. One can speak of truth in the sense of conformity with rules, given with the opening itself, only within an historical-cultural opening or paradigm.
