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    It is not the case that Hacking's distinction between inference to the truth of hypotheses and the classical statistician's evaluation of procedures shows these are fundamentally incompatible epistemic projects.

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    • 1.Both projects aim to reliably separate true from false claims; error control procedures succeed at hypothesis truth-seeking in practice, not just in principle.
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    • 2.The distinction conflates epistemic goals (knowing truth) with methodological frameworks; both can serve truth-seeking via different but complementary means.
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    • 3.Classical statisticians often *intend* procedures to track truth; framing this as incompatible conflates the formal structure of a method with its epistemic purpose.
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    • 1.Hypothesis truth-seeking asks 'is this claim about reality correct?', while procedure evaluation asks 'does this method control error rates?'—distinct questions.
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    • 2.Classical procedures can produce high-error-rate decisions while maintaining valid procedures; truth-seeking requires actual accuracy, not procedural validity.
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    • 3.One can rationally adopt a procedure with known poor performance on a hypothesis if it satisfies long-run error guarantees—incompatible with truth-directed goals.
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