The American-born Internet is today's exemplar; tomorrow's exemplar may be nano-science or quantum computing.
(We can think of this relation as akin to the relation of correspondence appealed to by certain theories of truth, and the exemplar itself as the mental item that is one of the relata of the correspondence-relation. The other relatum, of course, is "the way things really are").
Zhuangzi's exemplars are butchers, musicians, cicada catchers, wheelmakers exemplars of mundane and focused action guidance.
According to Henry, truth involves a relation to an "exemplar".
Knowledge in the full sense that is, knowledge of the "pure truth"—requires knowledge of the "uncreated exemplar", or Divine Idea.
A thing's conformity to its eternal reason, its truth, is its having the being its exemplar specifies.
That's used as an exemplar.
The exemplar for ontological truth must therefore be God, who perfectly realizes his own essence, which is to say that God is true "essentially".
He was an extraordinary man, the exemplar of the professor searching for "truth" and took his tenure seriously -- to write something, nay to give back something no peer review would have stomached, yet profoundly the work of a thinking, living and loving soul.
Without suggesting that we are dealing with holy writ or prophesy (though some see Orpheus as a purveyor of the first and an exemplar of the second), certain general truths exist within the related tales about this and other poets, and those truths emerge most vividly from the particular landscapes and timescapes which the poets may (or may not) have inhabited.
Future Tense singles out the prophets as exemplars of the voice of conscience, speaking truth to power.
