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

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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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    • 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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