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Comment author: buybuydandavis 27 March 2015 08:10:24PM 0 points [-]

See paragraph

Second, consider a Truth...

Epistemically accurate statements are only a subset of winning statements. Actually, that's only "some epistemically accurate statements", as others are losers in some use contexts.

Comment author: TheAncientGeek 27 March 2015 08:19:17PM *  0 points [-]

See paragraph

Second, consider a Truth...

Indeed: Some winning statements aren't true, so truth shouldn't be casually equated with winning.

Comment author: buybuydandavis 28 March 2015 02:57:50AM 0 points [-]

Not how I was using the term:

Paragraph 2:

Consider Truths as the winning statements,...

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