Step back 11. There is silence and silence 12. This text may be used and shared in accordance with the fair-use provisions of U.S. copyright law, and it may be archived and redistributed in electronic form, provided that the author is notified and no fee is charged for access. Archiving, redistribution, or republication of this text on other terms, in any medium, requires the consent of the author. If the substitution works, it will reorient thinking about Heidegger, while at the same time planting Cage's philosophical insights in deeper soil.
Truth here is the revealedness of an historical world.
Truth is put to work by being put into the work, which in turn has the task of opening up an historical world based on another truth, that is, an historically specific revealedness of being and thus of entities as such. This opening up is a struggle in which a world is wrested from the earth. It would seem that Cage as an artist, more specifically, as a composer, has opened a world with his works and thus set truth to work and into the work. In this other world a decision is made about what entities will be. This reminds one of Leibniz's monads as force centres, but in contrast to Leibniz's monads, Cage's centres are not dependent in any way on an omniscient and omnipotent God for their existence or their properties.