The second part of the word displays a reflexive aspect. It is hard to remain unbiased when the thought is centered around one's own mind. For example, a movie critic can also submit his or her own movies to a producer, however may become biased when criticizing the producer's other films. The second word "thinking" can be seen as questioning a question. So together critical thinking may be seen as an unknown answer to questioning a question. Veritas is the adequate correspondence between mind and thing. It shows to the individual that one's initial assertion is correct. In essence, it connects with critical thought.
Veritas moves in a path towards unconcealdness and disclosure and finally towards a-letheia. A- letheia is the Greek word that could roughly be translated into a non-oblivious or non-forgetful river. "From this genealogy of Truth' of humanist modernity, which discloses its origins in the
Roman translation of the Greek a-letheia to veritas, the hermeneutic circle (repetition) to the circulus vitiosus (recollection), and serves to pacify the force of that other' that is outside' the boundary limits of the centered circle (Spanos,