Mr Pinter has got hold of a primary fact of existence.
His art affirms spirituality — the awareness that glimmers at the headspring of consciousness, prior to thought and feeling — as the primary fact of life, always on tap.
In his work, meaninglessness appears less as a quality of the universe, a primary fact of the human condition, than as a personality flaw for which particular benighted people can be blamed and mocked.
In the West God was understood primarily in terms of one essence (the Trinity of persons being conceived as an irrational truth found in revelation); in the East the tri-personality of God was understood as the primary fact of Christian experience.
A simple fact, which, however, just happens to be the primary fact of human existence: our subjective conscious experience -- a topic we'll take up in our next blogisode.
Even leaving out of account the stark disagreement between him and the other experts as to the cause of death, the CPS concluded that the evidence of those primary facts undermined the basis upon which the other experts reached their conclusions about the cause of death.
Dewey pointed out that the "primary ineluctable facts of the birth and death of each one of the constituent members in a social group" make education a necessity, for despite this biological inevitability "the life of the group goes on" (Dewey, 3).
And seeing the world with a civic eye, the primary fact has been the globalization of opportunism.
I discovered without difficulty the enormous influence that this primary fact exerts on the course of society; it gives a certain direction to public spirit, a certain turn to the laws, new maxims to those who govern, and particular habits to the governed.
