In this paper I try to read Heidegger’s discussion of “discourse” (Rede) in a confrontation with some passages from Aristotle’s Metaphysics on truth and touch. With this kind of interpretation I show that the phenomenon of touch can help us in making sense of the “practical” or pragmatic character of discourse as “do something with what is ready-to-hand”. This new conception will allow us to better understand Heidegger’s turn from a conception of truth as Erschlossenheit (in Being and Time) to the idea that truth is the place of both Lichtung and Verbergung (for example in The Origin of the Work of Art). In the last part I’ll continue with this kind of interpretation by reading some pages from Heidegger’s later works, where it will prove possible to establish a connection between body and truth which goes beyond Heidegger’s own understanding of these phenomena.