So there is no deeper account of special obligations: truths about reasons and the relationships upon which they supervene are self-evident.
It is not just that this "truth" upon which Korin has stumbled is not defined; it is also that Krasznahorkai recesses Korin himself.
They did not consider the existence of God a mere opinion or guess but a truth accessible to reason – a truth upon which they based the Declaration of Independence and Bill of Rights.
Alternatively the agent may simply have no idea whatsoever about the logical status of what is in fact a logical truth upon which she must post odds, in which case a confidence of.5, or perhaps remaining entirely agnostic by not adopting any particular level of confidence, seems more reasonable than her being fully confident despite her ignorance.
What struck me about Oscar's musings was that while that once seemed an unassailable statement of fact, a pillar of truth upon which we could always lean and be supported, my bet is that if he were alive today he would revise his thinking, perhaps saying...the President reigns for four years but Journalism doesn't even make it to the inauguration.
If the connection to Buddhism is still not clear, consider the first of the four pillars (the Four Noble Truths) upon which the Buddha built a system of belief: that first and foremost the human condition is rife with suffering.
Such beliefs, as Gellman defines them, are the epistemic givens in a religious belief system — the assumed, foundational truths upon which all else is built.
The transformation of newspapers from enterprises devoted to objective reporting to a cluster of communities, each engaged in its own kind of "news"––and each with its own set of "truths" upon which to base debate and discussion––will mean the loss of a single national narrative and agreed-upon set of "facts" by which to conduct our politics.
But nearly five decades after his passing, it behooves us to face a disturbing truth: the dream upon which Dr. King founded his own dream is imperiled.
Most notably, Restatement (Second) of Torts §548, concerning fraudulent misrepresentation, insists that tort liability for misrepresentation requires that the party asserting liability has relied specifically on the truth of the representation upon which the claimed liability is based.
