Ἀλήθεια is the proper word of the Greek Dasein, ὁ μῦθος, the saying which for the Greek thought unfolds as the Λόγος in λέγειν and διαλέγεσθαι, namely, what comes-to-presence as expression and discussion. What comes-to-presence is generally preserved by the fundamental characteristic of ἀληθεύειν, of the uncovering of their presence within the horizon of hiddenness-this characteristic has not been thought any further.
Should we wonder, then, if we take into account this matter, that presumably an ancient tradition in Plato's Phaedrus speaks of the πεδὶον τῆς ἀληθείας,17 of the "field of unconcealment," where everything that truthfully comes—to—presence is allowed to stay?
If Ἀλήθεια is also called ἑστία τοῦ κόσμου, "the hearth of the appearing that penetrates and enlightens All, the one that gives and declines measure," fiery hearth of the coming-to-presence—then, the attempted interpretation of Heraclitus's utterance of κόσμος as πῦρ becomes meaningful only in the name of ἀλήθεια as ἑστία. The hearth gathers together and watches over κόσμος, because it offers
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