A story titled "Liar, Cheater" explores truth and fiction without a moment's ponderousness.
"Suppressing that freedom by political means constitutes a major obstacle to exploring truth and destroys the spiritual cornerstone of a university".
"A university is an open forum for exploring truth, and sharing opinions and academic freedom is the foundation for its existence," a group of professors at National Taiwan University wrote in an open letter this week.
Lewis' purpose does not have ethical implications, but is a tool to explore truth conditions: that is, whether a statement (particularly a counterfactual) is true, false or possibly true.
They discuss Hewison's life-long fascination and study of Ruskin, teaching students to draw as means of exploring truth, and the influence of Ruskin's thinking on the field of preservation in particular through his study of Venice.
They discuss Hewison's life-long fascination and study of John Ruskin, teaching students to draw as means of exploring truth, and the influence of Ruskin's thinking on the field of preservation in particular through his study of Venice.
Nothing is what it initially seems in a play beautifully directed by Daniel Goldman and exquisitely performed by Trevor White and Alex Austin, which constantly discombobulates the audience as it explores truth and lies, the art of storytelling and how often we only see the things we want to.
The fast-moving plot gives Langer plenty of opportunity to explore truth versus fiction in prose writing, with stabs at the likes of James Frey in the person of Blade Markham, memoirist of the moment.
"Ads" reflects Mr. Maxwell's abiding fascination with the poetry in speech that has not been manicured into smooth stage dialogue, and his conviction that exploring truths about experience in art often benefits from a level of artlessness.
Neither, I fear, retains much of the grit of deeply explored human truth: they are more cultural artifacts than enduring art.
