Sebald told me that ninety per cent of the photographs in the book "are what you would describe as authentic, i.e., they really did come out of the photo albums of the people described in those texts and are a direct testimony of the fact that these people did exist in that particular shape and form".
If a witness testifies that he saw a defendant fire a bullet into the body of a person who then died, this is direct testimony of material facts in murder, and the only question is whether the witness is telling the truth.
Those wanting to hear what happened in the Second World War will not be able to rely for ever on the direct testimony of survivors.
For example, sixty-nine paragraphs of the written direct testimony of James Barksdale, then chief executive officer of Netscape and plaintiffs' first witness, contained large amounts of inadmissible hearsay, oftentimes multiple levels of hearsay.
Anscombe (1981) argues that historical knowledge does not eventuate in, or only in, the direct testimony of the senses, as proposed by Hume (1978 [1740], Book I part III section IV).
During a conference in Rome in April 2016, this new approach primarily arose out of the direct testimony of people in the global south who are living in violent conflict zones.
Now we have had our trust betrayed so often that we tend to think that only the direct testimony of our senses is worth relying on, but that, too, is being eroded by science and technology.
Bianca Jagger, Maryam A'dobo, and M.I.A. were to read direct testimonies of Tamils, for whom the violence bled into mind, body, and soul.
Mr. Apter, in outlining his evidence -- the direct testimony, thousands of hours of secretly recorded conversations, canceled checks, phone records and confiscated crates of $150-a-bottle Bordeaux, among other things -- compared it to a large puzzle with pieces proving Mr. Ganim's guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.
After four days on the stand, the primary witness in a judicial bribery case finished his direct testimony yesterday, describing a series of gifts and cash payments made in exchange for legal assignments and favorable rulings.
