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There's a name the Greeks gave to truth. Non veritas, the Latin version—the "cold" one, from the courtroom, from a notarial deed. They called it Aletheia (ἀλήθεια): literally "that which is not hidden," the unveiling, the removal of the veil. Alpha privative + lèthe, concealment. To remove the concealment. Truth as an active act, as a revolutionary gesture...