ABSTRACT
Martin Heidegger accordingly suggests that it is no accident that the Greeks expressed the essence of truth by a privative expression, aletheia. Being-in-untruth makes up an essential characteristic of Being-in-the world, and it takes resolution to adhere to the way of truth. Fundamental to Heidegger's 'definition' of truth as Being-uncovering is his tracing back the question of the truth of an assertion to a direct confrontation with the entity pointed out in the assertion. In a sense, Heidegger's phenomenology of truth-seeking does bring out vividly the realism of the truth-seeker. Heidegger therefore characterizes the being-true of a logos as meaning that, in speaking, the entities one is talking about have to be taken out of their concealment; one must let them be seen as something unconcealed – literally, one discovers them. Yet it emerges that Heidegger is not simply trying to shift the locus of truth from assertions or judgements back to the entities themselves which are 'uncovered'.
