He films characters who bear the scars of history even as its truths are so often denied to them, for whom the persistence and suppression of history is one of the fundamental facts of contemporary life in China, and for whom "hallucinatory realism" is a frank depiction of the nightmarish quality of Chinese daily life.
Looking at the situations that exemplify a sentence as well as its truth-conditions helps with the choice.
Another court similarly observed that the "crucial question" raised by a contractual promise (such as a warranty) thus "is not whether the buyer believed in the truth of the warranted information but whether it believed it was purchasing the seller's promise as to its truth" (CBS, Inc. v. Ziff-Davis Publishing Co. 1990 10011990 1001
"I asked him if he did not realise that his responsibilities as a journalist and an Englishman made the sending of such a message without definitive authority as to its truth improper and reckless".
I asked him if he did not realise that his responsibilities as a journalist and an Englishman made the sending of such a message without definite authority as to its truth very improper and reckless".
They have a courtroom's need for balanced argument; and Lovelace's post-porn autobiography has been assailed by as many witnesses as have confirmed its truth.
The most dangerous aspect of the accusation of Jewish influence is that efforts to rebut it are offered as evidence of its truth.
But that does not solve the problem, for to believe this is simply to believe another future-tensed proposition — namely, "p will become true" — which is just as dependent on my decision for its truth as is p. Similarly, it will not do to claim that to believe p is not to believe it is true but only that it is likely or probable.
Most English speakers tend to understand 'Every S is P' as requiring for its truth that there be some Ss, and if that requirement is imposed, then subalternation holds for affirmative propositions.
As he remarks: "What is originative is the caesura that establishes the distance between reason and non-reason; reason's subjugation of non-reason, wresting from it its truth as madness, crime, or disease, derives explicitly from this point" (Foucault 1965, x).
It was dreadful and disorderly, yet she was roused by its truth, as if by the revelation of something that had been hidden from her.
