Mnemosyne and Lethe: Heidegger’s interpretation of truth

Backwaters of Lethe

Truth in Interpretation : The Case of Psychoanalysis

The Metaphysical Interpretation of Logical Truth

The notion of logical truth has a wide variety of different uses, hence it is not surprising that it can be interpreted in different ways. In this chapter I will focus on one of them – what I call the metaphysical interpretation. A more precise formulation of this interpretation will be put forward in what follows, but I wish to say something about my motivation first. Part of my interest conce...

The Indefinability of Truth and Interpretation in Heidegger and Davidson

starting points that lead to ‘the true’ but are not themselves genuine or authentic. For Heidegger, once we reflect on their inadequacies and recognize their function in everyday practice, they have no further role to play in philosophical reflection. Indeed, once we reach this point, reliance upon the everyday senses of truth becomes a barrier to reflection. We dispense with truth as correctne...

Spread Spectrum Storage with Mnemosyne

We motivate and describe Mnemosyne1, a highly private and reliable distributed storage system built over a number of untrusted, unreliable block stores. A client selects the pseudo-random set of block locations used to store a particular file by successive hashing of an initial key value. Resiliency to collisions is obtained by the use of erasure codes. The resulting system operates with decent...