Re: Truth, Hittite

Actually there is a quote in Hesiod that opposes alétheia to pseûdos, so the meaning of alétheia seems to have been one close to the current one, against for instance Heidegger's interpretation.

But as philosophy stems from the pre-socratic's endeavours and as they mainly lived at the borders of the former Hittite empire, I wonder if that weird word, alétheia, came somehow out of the Hittite tradition...

Rick McCallister <gabaroo6958@...> escreveu:

Interesting word for truth, see a "not" + lethe
"forget" + ia which seems to function as a marker for
abstract qualities and collectivitites
but someone else will have to take it back to IE for
you

--- Francisco Antonio Doria <doriagen@... com.br>
wrote:

> Is there a word that would reasonably, safely be
> translated as truth, in Hittite? I know that there
> is no indo-european word for the concept. I'm
> checking on the possible origins of Gk alétheia -
> Apasa and Millawanda were peripheral to the Hittite
> empire, and were the places where Philosophy begins.
>
> Francisco Antonio Doria
>
> (I'm not a linguist; my PhD is in mathematical
> physics and most of my work has to do with the
> foundations of axiomatized sciences.)
>
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