Martin Heidegger makes this point by arguing the root instance of 'truthing' is not captured by our accepted idea that truth consists of the correspondence between a proposition and an external state of affairs. Heidegger turns to the Greek term alethia, which translates roughly as a bringing forth, a revealing, or a bringing forth out of concealment. Alethia is closely related to poiesis (creation). Literature and other forms of art do not copy the world in some objective sense, but if they do their proper work they reveal or bring forth truth as no other form of knowledge or episteme can.

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