Like Kundera's Czechoslovaks, we must seek to rediscover ourselves in the language of love stories, not as an escape from reality, but a restatement of reality's most fundamental truths.
The certainty of judgment requires that we be aware of the impossibility of our being mistaken combined with our awareness that the truth that we know cannot be otherwise; indeed, the most fundamental truths we know are all immutable.
Crystal-ball forecasts for the coming year ignore one of the most fundamental truths about people deeply engaged in information technology: Real IT folks don't just dream about IT, they fix things.
Owens, who would later suffer the indignity of racing against horses to make ends meet, proved one of the Olympics' most fundamental truths in demonstrating, in front of Hitler himself, the emptiness of Nazi myth.
For although the pragmatist interpretation correctly recognizes that, for Heidegger, propositional correspondence is not the most fundamental phenomenon of truth, it takes the fundamental variety to be exhausted by Dasein's sense-making skilled practical activity.
"Realism" says that the correctness of moral judgments resides in their truth, and that truth of most fundamental moral principles consists in their corresponding to a moral order (of moral facts or objects) that is antecedent to reason and to principles of practical reasoning.
Questions such as these are the subject of ongoing debate and are discussed further in Box 1. Polygenicity may turn out to be the fundamental truth for most common human diseases, and its discovery may be the overriding achievement of the GWAS approach 70, 71.
Because all these stories illustrate one of the most fundamental yet still under-appreciated truths of human existence, which is this: everyone is totally just winging it, all the time.
