Fine and well, but that’s got nothing to do with the definition of “winning” or “winner”, semantic concerns, etc. Some goals are harder to achieve than others, that’s all.
The point is that if you say “doing X is winning” then immediately people will drift to “whoever is winning is doing X”—which is a fallacy, but you only can see that if you notice all the asterisks that come with that first statement.
Fine and well, but that’s got nothing to do with the definition of “winning” or “winner”, semantic concerns, etc. Some goals are harder to achieve than others, that’s all.
The point is that if you say “doing X is winning” then immediately people will drift to “whoever is winning is doing X”—which is a fallacy, but you only can see that if you notice all the asterisks that come with that first statement.