39. 'It is not true in general that statements of how things are are "based on" statements of how things appear, look, or seem and not vice versa.… I may say, for instance, "The pillar is bulgy" on the ground that it looks bulgy; but equally I might say, in different circumstances, "That pillar looks bulgy"—on the ground that I've just built it, and I built it bulgy' (1962: 116, emphasis his).
They were statements of important things suddenly made obvious.
"I love the badges of the old Singapore playgrounds from the 1970s and 80s – these playgrounds were all wiped out, so it's a great statement of how things have changed," says Lua. thelittledromstore.com.com
They not only are a dramatic statement of the things Husain held dear – a private mythology that framed Gandhi with Ganesh and juxtaposed Mother Teresa with the Mahabharata – but also represent another kind of homecoming.
Taking the Irish poet WB Yeats's despairing statement of destruction – things fall apart – for its title, Chinua Achebe's first novel was a presentiment of what was to come in Nigeria during the end of the colonial occupations and their aftermath.
A human being is a composite of body and soul, and a proposition is "the statement of one thing about another or one thing from another" (Baur 1912, 143).
Statements about the value of things or state of affairs are evaluative statements: they evaluate something or a state of affairs in terms of a value.
What at first appeared as acts of cultural, bad-boy vandalism have turned out to be bitter statements about the state of things.
And then there is that other thing: when you think you are reading proof, whereas you are merely reading your own mind; your statement of the thing is full of holes and vacancies but you don't know it, because you are filling them from your mind as you go along.
Rather, a "fact" is a statement about the state of things at the time of the utterance, a statement about what is actual and objective – not a set of ideas about how things came to be as they are now.
