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HEIDEGGER'S ONTOLOGY AND LANGUAGE AS THE UNIVERSAL MEDIUM 189 SI
spondence notion by writing that "To say that an assertion 'is true 9
signifies that it uncovers the entity as it is in itself." 213 And indeed,
Ernst Tugendhat, who has written a critical and penetrating exposition
of Heidegger's notion of truth, argues that with this statement
Heidegger does not yet go beyond Husserl. 214 This step is taken,
however, as Heidegger without further argument drops the "as it is
in itself", writing simply that "the being-true (truth) of the assertion
must be understood as being-uncovering," 215 Tugendhat claims that
with this step Heidegger loses the notion of truth as usually understood:
after dropping the qualification "as it is in itself" from his
notion of truth, Heidegger will no longer be able to give a criterion
by which to distinguish the sense in which all assertions—even false
ones—uncover something from the way in which only true assertions
uncover something. 216
Tugendhat's analysis is of course correct in the sense that Heidegger
here indeed gives up the correspondence notion of truth.
What is crucial here, however, is not so much that he does so, but
rather why he is forced to do so. Heidegger's dissatisfaction with Tugendhat's
book turned precisely on this point, (von Herrmann, pers.
comm.) In order to appreciate this dissatisfaction, it is necessary to
follow Heidegger into the heart of his notion of truth, a notion of
truth that is no longer linked to assertions.
Heidegger claims that truth as uncovering is grounded in the
phenomenon that he calls "Being-in-the-world" 217 , alias the phenomenon
that "Dasein is 'in the truth* 9 . 21 * On another occasion 219
he writes that if we want to speak of truth as a relation, we should
say that it is the relation "of Dasein as Dasein to its world". In
Being and Time these notions are explained in four steps.
First of all, Heidegger reminds us that in so far as Dasein is
Being-in-the-world, where world is the universal medium of meaning,
the world is disclosed to Dasein. ("To Dasein 9 s state of Being
disclosedness in general essentially belongs." 220 ) In so far as Dasein
lives in its world, this world is an already interpreted world, a world
already implicitly identified, a world that Dasein is aware of and
aquainted with.
Second, Dasein is "thrown into" this world, in the sense that Dasein
"always already" lives within some already interpreted world.