But with the web increasingly divided into like-minded echo chambers, it's not clear whether such a flood of factuality would inform people better or just reinforce their convictions about what a lying bunch the other lot are.
Gentile, on the other hand, accentuated the opposition of subject and object by considering every objective factuality as surpassed by the living dialectical development of the act i.e., the becoming of the Spirit in its own self-making, proceeding from an originating self-establishment, or autoktisis, of the Spirit itself.
This mere factuality, he held, can neither be calculated nor deduced, but only experienced; reason therefore means nothing but the power to encounter concrete reality.
Bibliographic procedures have been revolutionized; historical scholars, biographers, and historians of theory have placed criticism on a sounder basis of factuality.
Such paintings as his Burial at Ornans (1849) and the Stone Breakers (1849), which he had exhibited in the Salon of 1850 51, had already shocked the public and critics by the frank and unadorned factuality with which they depicted humble peasants and labourers.
Later developments included novels with more experimental forms, philosophical concerns, and greater social and political comment, such as Danilo Kiš's Grobnica za Borisa Davidoviča (1976; A Tomb for Boris Davidovich), in which pseudo-biographical stories of communist revolutionaries and victims of the Stalinist purges crossed the line between fiction and factuality.
Moody as the oppressive urban heat of a New York summer's day, the scene seems to be slipping back and back into an ever deeper haze of disappointed factuality even as we stare and stare into its stinking, misty shimmer.
Yet, unlike dramas, documentaries rest on the claim of factuality, of the events in the movie having actually taken place.
Eighty million Germans had been shielded against reality and factuality by exactly the same self-deception, lies, and stupidity that had now become ingrained in Eichmann's nature.
As always in Morris's films, the insistence on factuality is accompanied by a kind of rapt dreaminess, an almost Zen-like mood of contemplation, in which Rumsfeld's mind, in all its particularity, becomes just a single element in the eternal flux (here represented by shots of empty oceans).
David O. Russell's new movie falls into a distinctive genre that I'd call long-form cinema: a story based on reporting (e.g., "Argo," "Zero Dark Thirty") that departs from the underlying factuality while still relying on it for import and affect.
