Like film noir, New York is famous for its ability to contort our perceptions of reality, truth and, above all, logic.
It's a film about the mind and its mysteries, about appearance and reality, truth and untruth.
Is it the solid, loving partnership James has always assumed it to be, or a soul trap for Candida's great spirit, void of "reality, truth and freedom"?
Starting from an initially simple question, Dummett would weave an increasingly intricate discussion of the fundamental nature of reality, truth, the past, meaning and understanding, logic and language.
The tooling of the Greek language for analytic theorising on the nature of reality, truth, mortality and love reached its zenith in the fifth century BC.
In doing so, they don't set out to change the world but rather to question the nature or reality, truth and, indeed, documentary itself.
Ḥaqīqah, (Arabic: "reality," "truth"), in Sufi (Muslim mystic) terminology, the knowledge the Sufi acquires when the secrets of the divine essence are revealed to him at the end of his journey toward union with God.
In the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922), the Viennese-born philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein viewed the role of language as providing a "picture of reality". Truth was seen as making logical propositions that correspond to reality.
It has no access to the ultimate criteria whereby the haqq of things their reality, truth, rightness, and appropriateness vis-à-vis the Real can be discerned.
In obscuring reality, truth becomes unclear.
In the Judeo-Christian tradition, we are not dealing with truth as a set of propositions that describe reality; truth is not "known," but experienced primarily in liberation (Exodus) and transformation (new Genesis).
