Just as Eisenstein asserted the reality of a medieval Russian nation in his 1938 film Alexander Nevsky, about the hero who drove back the Teutonic Knights, Tarkovsky asserts the depth and intensity of Russian culture by retelling the life of its first artistic hero.
Those articles included an 1883 statement that asserted "the reality of the use of Christian blood in many rituals of the modern synagogue".
Wallace objects that Poulton asserts the reality of sexual selection with no proof other than mentioning that insects can perceive colour, and that "a few birds collect bright objects, as in the case of the bower-birds".
Declaring all such external existential questions devoid of cognitive content, Carnap now feels emboldened to dismiss both realism that asserts the ontological reality of abstract entities and nominalism that asserts their irreality as "pseudo-statements if they claim to be theoretical statements" (ibid).
Secondly, they would not hesitate to direct the stockholders' attention to the existence of minimum liquidating values in excess of the market price, and to assert their confidence in the reality of these values.
(G II 275/AG 181) Yet, this position, denying the reality of bodies and asserting that monads are the grounds of all corporeal phenomena, as well as its metaphysical corollaries has shocked many.
Giles's reply is to the effect that the confused, simple concept of a substance possessed by the ordinary fellow in fact refers to the same reality as the real definition does, so that asserting the real definition of the confused concept simply asserts that the reality is itself, and so is a triviality, after all.
The sentimental novel depicts the reality of slavery while also asserting that Christian love can overcome something as destructive as enslavement of fellow human beings.
Historians who come across statements asserting the occurrence of miracles should ask themselves whether an inductive generalisation based on their own experience of reality would provide probabilistic evidence for the occurrence of miraculous events.
Had this virus caused more severe disease, the committee asserted, "the unavoidable reality is that tens of millions of people would be at risk".
