In responding to Teiresias’s question, Oidipous acknowledges his failure to make the seer’s words intelligible (γνωστόν). In this honest admission the two semantic fields of truth and error collapse into one. Yet in admitting to being at a loss, Oidipous defines the problem in terms of his own ability to speak clearly, as if everything hinged on this. The fact is that he has been speaking very clearly, but he was insensitive to the meanings of his own words. This makes it evident once more that the only meaning of which he can be aware is still one to which his own mind gives birth. He is not yet sufficiently receptive to receiving a meaning that is not yet his own. It is possible that if Teiresias were now to express the truth to him, he would still not comprehend it. [Md] [Mpe]