Aletheia
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Aletheia or Alethia is truth or disclosure in philosophy. Originating in Ancient Greek philosophy, the term was explicitly used for the first time in the history of philosophy by Parmenides in his poem On Nature, in which he contrasts it with doxa.
A painting that reveals (aletheia) a whole world. Heidegger mentions this particular work of Van Gogh's (Pair of Shoes, 1895) in The Origin of the Work of Art.
Parmenides
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Parmenides of Elea was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher from Elea in Magna Graecia.
Bust of Parmenides discovered at Velia, thought to have been partially modeled on a Metrodorus bust.