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    Truth is communicated through signs that require interpretation, not through direct disclosure.

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    • 1.The lord whose oracle is at Delphi neither speaks nor conceals, but gives a sign (DKB93/LM41).
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    • 2.Heraclitus' own obscure remarks point to the truth in the same way natural evidence does.
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    • 1.Parmenides' goddess delivers truth through direct propositional disclosure, not signs requiring interpretation (DK B2-B8).
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    • 2.The 'Way of Truth' in the Proem presents being's nature as directly statable: 'it is and cannot not be'.
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    • 3.If truth required interpretive signs essentially, Parmenides' deductive chain would be undermined by the very medium expressing it.
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    • 1.Aristotle argues in Metaphysics IV that truth is the mind's direct correspondence to how things are, not mediated semiotic inference.
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    • 2.If all truth-communication required interpretive signs, an infinite regress follows: each sign's interpretation would itself require another sign.
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    Heraclitus regards the cosmos as an ordered system like a language that can be read or heard and understood by those who are attuned to it. That language is not just the physical evidence around us (“Eyes and ears are bad witnesses to those with barbarian souls” DKB107/LMD33); the sheer accumulation of information is not the same as wisdom (see the rebuke in DK22B40/LMD20, quoted above). Although the evidence of the senses is important (see DKB55/LMD31), careful and thoughtful inquiry is also ne
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