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    It is not the case that The goal of maximizing true beliefs cannot be specified without a prior normative account of which truths are significant, which Clifford's Rule does not provide.

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    • 1.Clifford's Rule is fundamentally about justified belief, not about which truths to pursue; significance judgments are separate from evidence standards.
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    • 2.Requiring prior normative specification creates regress: any account of significance itself requires justification, potentially infinite regress.
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    • 3.Pragmatic agents naturally prioritize beliefs based on context without explicit normative theory; Clifford's Rule remains valid within any priority scheme.
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    • 1.Clifford's Rule demands evidence for all beliefs equally, but trivial truths and vital ones require different epistemic thresholds.
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    • 2.Without distinguishing significant from insignificant truths, we cannot coherently rank competing epistemic goals or resolve belief conflicts.
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    • 3.A normative account of significance is logically prior because it determines which truths matter enough to justify belief-formation efforts.
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