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This post starts out by saying that we know there is such a thing as truth, because there is something that determines our experimental outcomes, aside from our experimental predictions. But by the end of the post, you're talking about truth as correspondence to an arrangement of atoms in the universe. I'm not sure how you got from there to here.
We know there's such a thing as reality due to the reasons you mention, not truth - that's just a relation between reality and our beliefs.
"Arrangements of atoms" play a role in the idea that not all "syntactically correct" beliefs actually are meaningful and the last koan asks us to provide some rule to achieve this meaningfulness for all constructible beliefs (in an AI).
At least that's my understanding...