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Correspondence of beliefs to reality being desirable is no closer to being a tautology than financial institutes being on the side of rivers, undercover spies digging tunnels in the ground, or spectacles being drinking vessels.
If I had said something that meant something loosely correlated to this, your point would be valid. Instead, what I said was: "I value being right because it is right; I disvalue being wrong because it is wrong."