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Aletheia is a Greek word variously translated as "unclosedness", "unconcealedness", "disclosure" or "truth".

The literal meaning of the word ἀ–λήθεια is "the state of not being hidden; the state of being evident" and it also implies "sincerity", as well as "factuality" or "reality".

In the early to mid 20th-century, Martin Heidegger brought renewed attention to the concept of aletheia, by relating it to the notion of disclosure, or the way in which things appear as entities in the world. While he initially referred to aletheia as "truth", (specifically a form of which that is pre-Socratic in origin), Heidegger eventually corrected this interpretation, writing:

To raise the question of aletheia, of disclosure as such, is not the same as raising the question of truth. For this reason, it was inadequate and misleading to call aletheia, in the sense of opening, truth."

Heidegger gave an etymological analysis of aletheia, and drew out an understanding of the term as 'unconcealedness' ( - nothing hidden?).

Heidegger focused on the elucidation of how an ontological "world" is disclosed, or opened up, in which things are made intelligible for human beings in the first place, as part of a holistically structured background of meaning.

Heidegger also wrote that "Aletheia, disclosure thought of as the opening of presence, is not yet truth. Is aletheia then less than truth? Or is it more because it first grants truth as adequatio (the way things really are) and certitudo (the essence of a thing), because there can be no presence and presenting outside of the realm of the opening?"

  A painting that reveals (alethe) a whole world. Heidegger mentions this particular work of Van Gogh's, Shoes, 1888, in "The Origin of the Work of Art".