Perhaps the present truth about the peppered moth is too complicated for textbook treatment.
This mesmerising second feature from Thai film-maker Anocha Suwichakornpong, writer/director of 2009's Mundane History, is a kaleidoscopic meditation on the shifting relationship between past and present, truth and fiction, movies and memory.
With its multiple contradictory flashbacks conspiring to present truth as an amorphous entity, Rashomon has been hugely influential on film structure and vocabulary in the 60 years since it was made.
Abelard was particularly interested in the question of whether the present truth of statements about future contingent events are themselves determinate; i. e., whether 'The sentence 'Socrates will eat tomorrow' is true', if true, is determinately true.
But putting the onus on viewers to separate truth from fiction, rather than having editors present truth in the first place, not only seems irrational and inefficient.
The danger of opting for the storyline over a more complex and present truth is this: When we make up stories, we create an alternate reality.
The irony here is that the privilege of staying silent or ignoring the ever present truth of systemic or blatant racism is a privilege that is only possible through the oppression of others.
Jesus' birth was the beginning of the end for evil and death's rule of terror in human history...it is more than just a celebration, it is a real and present truth.
This idea survived to a certain extent in Coleridge's classification; he stated that grammar and logic provide the rules of speech and reasoning, while mathematics presents truths that are applicable to external existence.
