(2) of the region between thing and man, (3) of man himself with regard to the thing, and (4) of man to fellow man.
This four-fold openness would not be what it is and what it has to be if each of these opennesses were separately encapsulated from the others. This four-fold openness holds sway rather as one and unitary, and in its compass every conformity to... and every correctness and incorrectness of representing come into play and maintain themselves. If we attend to this multiple and yet unitary openness then with one stroke we find ourselves transported into another realm beyond correctness and its concomitant representational activity.
This multiple-unitary openness holds sway in correctness. The openness is not first produced by the correctness of the representing, but rather, just the reverse, it is taken over as what was always already holding sway. Correctness of representation is only possible if it can establish itself in this openness which supports it and vaults it over. The openness is the ground and the soil and the arena of all correctness. Thus as long as truth is conceived as correctness, and correctness itself passes unquestioned, i.e., as something ultimate and primary, this conception of truth–no matter how long a tradition has again and again confirmed it–remains groundless. But, as soon as that openness, as the possibility and the ground of correctness, comes into view, even if unclearly, truth conceived as correctness becomes questionable.
§9. The conception of truth and of the essence of man. The basic question of truth.
a) The determination of the essence of truth as connected to the determination of the essence of man.
We might marvel that up to now the ground of correctness has never been seriously put into question. But this omission proves to be less peculiar if we consider that the relation of man to beings, understood from time immemorial as immediate representing and perceiving, seems to be the most ordinary aspect of human experience and therefore the most obvious. The domination