This "crack" is universal: humanity will always be reconciled to life as it is while, at the same time, longing for a simple, unitary truth, underlying existence, that provides a deep and consoling explanation.
These knowledge systems are useful as part of a bricolage and are considered as complementary to mainstream knowledge systems – not as unitary truth systems or master narratives.
Sinhalese opposition to this proposal lives on: many Rajapaksa supporters noted that the general's manifesto did not refer to Sri Lanka as a "unitary" state.In truth, the high expectations of General Fonseka had always looked exaggerated a reflection of his strong support among influential city folk, including Colombo's pro-UNP businessmen.
These collaborations led to numerous papers (Da Costa and French 1989, 1990 , 1991 1993), and in 2003 also a book they coauthored, Science and Partial Truth: A Unitary Approach to Models and Scientific Reasoning (French and Da Costa 2003), which has received international acclaim for the light it casts on philosophical logic, structuralism, and current debates about realism.
For critics and defenders alike, postmodernism became associated with belief in a 'crisis' in representation, abandonment of correspondence theories of truth, universal reason, and unitary schemas of progress inherited from the Enlightenment.
Confession and penance are central to totalitarian regimes: the dissenter must admit to crimes that he didn't commit or rectify any discordant remarks he has made so that they're in line with the "truth" — in this case, the unitary discourse offered by holy texts and propounded by the Supreme Leader.
'It is phallic because in its exhibition of penises it presumes to know, to possess an adequate expression of the truth of 'sex' ― as if sex were as unitary as the phallus presumes itself to be.
Marlborough, unitary authority, northeastern South Island, New Zealand.
Georgia is a unitary multiparty republic.
You are not unitary, unified, self-contained.
You might live under a unitary authority.
