The traditional view of truth is based on the view of human beings as essentially cognitive creatures, who represent the world of objects through ideas and concepts expressed in assertions. In this world view, truth denotes the correspondence between those mental or linguistic representations, on the one hand, and objects, facts or events in the world, on the other.
Heidegger argues against it is that it is impossible to validate such a correspondence and, moreover, that no one would even try. Instead, he maintains, for there to be a correspondence between ideas or statements and objects, the objects must first become manifest. The truth is their manifestation: their disclosure or uncovering, alhJeia rather than correspondence.
Along with replacing the concept of truth as correspondence with the concept of truth as alhJeia, Heidegger creates a hierarchy of truth in which assertion - which traditionally had been identified with truth - is relegated to the lowest rung, preceded by Being on the first rung and by man on the second. In Heidegger's view. for beings to be manifested, the existence of a common background against which the manifestation occurs is required. The common background in which all beings appear is Being. In the hierarchy of the various meanings of truth, the privileged, primary level is reserved for Being.
The privilege of Being is the privilege of the customer. For the customer discoverability is key. The customer installs some software and its features are hidden. The customer bought some software to help them do something. How to use it? The features need to be discovered, become unconcealed. Then man can use the software. Finally the software can be used to make or validate assertions. ¶ 10:01 PM
