In "A Civil Action" by Jonathan Hard, the lawyer for the complainants, the members of the local community poisoned by the W.D. Grace Company, Jan Schlichtman tells Grace's lawyer Jerome Facher he's trying to get to the truth. Facher replies, "The truth is at the bottom of a bottomless pit". His meaning here is obvious, and Schlichtmann h…
In "A Civil Action" by Jonathan Hard, the lawyer for the complainants, the members of the local community poisoned by the W.D. Grace Company, Jan Schlichtman tells Grace's lawyer Jerome Facher he's trying to get to the truth. Facher replies, "The truth is at the bottom of a bottomless pit". His meaning here is obvious, and Schlichtmann has no come-back for it, but even, so truth can be difficult to ascertain with great certainty as our perceptive skills are always a bit defective in ways we can't be aware of. It is far easier to spot untruth than to identify truth, and we certainly have had more of our shares of manifest untruths in the past several years.
In "A Civil Action" by Jonathan Hard, the lawyer for the complainants, the members of the local community poisoned by the W.D. Grace Company, Jan Schlichtman tells Grace's lawyer Jerome Facher he's trying to get to the truth. Facher replies, "The truth is at the bottom of a bottomless pit". His meaning here is obvious, and Schlichtmann has no come-back for it, but even, so truth can be difficult to ascertain with great certainty as our perceptive skills are always a bit defective in ways we can't be aware of. It is far easier to spot untruth than to identify truth, and we certainly have had more of our shares of manifest untruths in the past several years.