"The Island of the Day Before," an anonymous narrator's attempt to sort out the scribbled reflections, letters and dreams of a 17th-century Frenchman marooned in a rotting vessel anchored offshore from a deserted island, offers a dizzying maelstrom of intertextual narratives, each successive truth-as-fiction being swallowed up and subverted by the next.
Fleck argued that science does not approach the truth because successive thought-styles raise new problems and discard older forms of knowledge (Fleck 1986 [1936], 111 112; 1979 [1935], 19, 51, 137 139; cf. Harwood 1986, 177).
Triangulation: using different methods, sources and disciplines, and a range of informants in a range of places and cross checking to get closer to the truth through successive approximations.
But truth be told, successive regulators utterly failed ITV and hampered the development of Britain's TV-based creative industries.
And the truth is that successive British governments, especially those that take office intending large changes, have come to believe that their efforts have been frustrated by the system.
This tragedy is not mentioned in Thailand's history books, since the military has conspired with successive governments to hide the truth about the massacre.
Now 58, Keeler has consistently said that successive governments have hushed up the truth of the sordid, sensational Profumo affair.
More important is the implied theme: that sexual experience, the practice of art, and love are all ways of learning to understand and finally to pass beyond successive phases of development toward ultimate truth and reality.
Lawyers representing relatives of those killed at Batang Kali in 1948 claim the alleged massacre has been covered up by successive administrations determined to hide the truth about the UK's colonial past.
Guiding us through the many facets of Dewey's comments, Jackson also calls on Hegel, Kant, and Paul Tillich to shed light on how a society does, can, and should transmit truth and knowledge to successive generations.
Popper and Kuhn differed, however, in their definitions of progress: the former appealed to the idea that successive theories may approach towards the truth, while the latter characterized progress in terms of the problem-solving capacity of theories.
