Reputation deterrence requires verifiable public knowledge of defections

Evidence

1 Common knowledge: all defections have to be made public. This does not simply mean a public announcement. It has to be possible to distinguish between real and bogus claims, to know who really was the offending party. This is frequently impossible. — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 2609

Categorization

• XREF: The observability requirement for deterrence parallels the reader’s core argument that removing observation (blindness) collapses trust in Saramago. — connects to: Disclosure regulation relies on informed donors and press scrutiny for deterrence. — Henry M. Hart, Jr. and Albert M. Sacks, The Legal Process: Basic Problems in…, 1346
• QUESTION: In the blindness novel, defections are even less verifiable to the blind — does Saramago’s world show the impossibility of common knowledge structurally, not just empirically?