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    It is not the case that If persistence of Cooperate depends entirely on Defect never being introduced, the claim reduces to: a strategy persists when it faces no competition, which is trivially true and explanatorily vacuous.

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    • 1.Identifying necessary conditions for persistence (no Defect introduction) is substantive; it explains what must remain true for stability.
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    • 2.Many legitimate scientific claims hold only under specific boundary conditions; vaccines work when properly administered, but that's informative.
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    • 3.The claim may identify real structural constraints on cooperation, not vacuity—showing when strategies fail is itself valuable explanation.
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    • 1.A theory lacks explanatory power if its core prediction holds only in absence of real-world conditions it claims to address.
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    • 2.Cooperation's value lies in surviving strategic challenges; persistence without competition tells us nothing about robustness.
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    • 3.Tautologies (true by definition) cannot explain phenomena; this claim reveals Cooperate's persistence as analytically, not causally, grounded.
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