Great care should, however, be taken not to regard this study as presenting a final truth.
In the end she saves herself through writing, but not before she's faced the final truth about her own feckless father, who she had assumed was dead, and who is now in fact dying of cancer and seeking understanding.
For the final truth about snowflakes is that they become more individual as they fall — that, buffeted by wind and time, they are translated, as if by magic, into ever more strange and complex patterns, until, at last, like us, they touch earth.
The final truth about reality is, on Bradley's view, quite literally and in principle inexpressible.
It is very timely, incisive, cool, pragmatic, certainly, not "the final truth", but about the best that can be offered at the moment.
Görtemaker is often compelled to phrases like "we can only speculate," "no authenticated information about," "the final truth, however, remains unknown".
A strikingly beautiful black-and-white film about the killing of a Sicilian bandit in 1950 sheds no final truth on who's responsible.
From a realist perspective, however, this is not seen as a limitation, as there is no such thing as final truth or knowledge.
Truth is truth, and death may be the final truth.
A final warning about hitchhiking?
