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    It is not the case that If a belief system is massively false, maximizing truth assignments misidentifies content rather than revealing it, inverting the explanatory order.

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    • 1.Truth-tracking is precisely how we identify content: false beliefs about X still have X as their content precisely because they aim at truth.
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    • 2.Even massively false systems preserve referential relations through error patterns, so truth-maximization reveals rather than inverts meaning.
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    • 3.Without truth-based methods, we have no principled way to distinguish systematic error from content misidentification at all.
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    • 1.Content is determined by causal-historical relations to the world, not by truth-value assignments within a system.
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    • 2.A radically false belief system's internal coherence can mask systematic distortion of what its terms actually refer to.
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    • 3.Maximizing true sentences in a false framework optimizes the wrong target, like perfecting a map of a territory that doesn't exist.
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