Reality in movies used to resemble the medium commonly taken as the most reliable sign of truth: the newspaper photograph.
Thus, it is difficult to decide whether Baudrillard is best read as science fiction and pataphysics, or as philosophy, social theory, and cultural metaphysics, and whether his post-1970s work should be read under the sign of truth or fiction.
Here is a dancer — while seeming always modest and courteous — who keeps growing, finding ever more signs of truth and spontaneity in his choreography, making everything fall into focus around him.
The challenge van Inwagen sets for modal epistemology is the following: how does one know (or how can one be confident) that one has reached sufficient detail in the scenario they have imagined so as to have included in it the truth of the claim in question rather than an unreliable sign of the truth?
While Holocaust denial or denigration in the Muslim world is a sadly familiar phenomenon, hardly news at all, the conference put together by Mr. Boudra and several dozen classmates, all of them Muslim, may well have been the first of its kind in an Arab or Muslim nation, and a sign of historical truth triumphing over conspiracy theories and anti-Semitic dogma.
"Why did you deny it and then sign a statement of truth in support of your denial?" he asked.
Woodward, who partnered with Bernstein in covering Watergate and now is an associate editor at the Post, said he loved Bradlee and remembered how he prowled the newsroom like a wolf in search of news, gossip or any signs of hidden truth.
The notes, whose writer claims to be coming to Miranda's time to save a life, offer three signs of the truth of the messages.
If the western view of the world has prevailed over all others, this is not so much a sign of its providential truth as of its physical power.
Amnesia about these things sets in with astonishing speed, and this amnesia, which is, of course, infuriating to the families of the victims, is also, in a way, a sign of that other truth: the injuries done are on a scale that, compared to the scale of real warfare, are tragic but secondary.
If a sacrament is, as theologians are fond of saying, a visible sign of an invisible truth, these pilgrims were sacraments for me.
