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I always made a distinction between rationality and truth-seeking. Rationality is only intelligible when in the context of a goal (whether that goal be rational or irrational). Now, if one acts rationally, given their information set, will chose the best plan-of-action towards succeeding their goal. Part of being rational is knowing which goals will maximize their utility function.
My definition of truth-seeking is basically Robin's definition of "rational." I find it hard to imagine a time where truth-seeking is incompatible with acting rationally (the way I defined it). Can anyone think of an example?
I like to distinguish information-theoretic rationality from decision-theoretic rationality. (But these are rather long terms.) Often on this blog it's unclear which is meant (although you and Robin did make it clear.)
The relevant articles: What do we mean by rationality wiki
Yeah, I'd just been reading those, but they don't fix the terminology either.
Perhaps you could call them "truth" and "winning" respectively.