Aletheia is the Greek word for "truth", and like the English word implies sincerity as well as factuality or reality. The literal meaning of the word is "the state of not being hidden; the state of being evident". Heidegger and Aletheia ."]]It is a significant concept in the study of philosophy and epistemology because defining truth as aletheia, instead of as correspondence or coherence, represents a clear departure from nearly every philosophical tradition since the Ancient period. In the early to mid 20th-century, Martin Heidegger resurrected and developed the notion into the form recognized today; a renewed attempt to understand Truth. Heidegger gave an etymological analysis of the term, and drew out an understanding of a-letheia as 'disclosedness'; cf. lethe as forgetfulness. Thus, aletheia is distinct from the more well-known conceptions of truth as statements which accurately describe a st

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