It is not an empirical truth. It is at best a logical truth (and only do because of the axioms I choose). Maybe it is possible that there is an empirically optimal strategy—I doubt I’ll ever find it. The best I can do is show that if you accept some axioms, some specific strategy is optimal. The truth of optimality then is analytical rather than synthetic. I do not call what I’m doing truthseeking because of that.
What I’m doing is to devise an optimum strategy for truth seeking; I do not think that is in itself truth seeking.
Why not? Do you think the thesis that a specific strategy is the optimum strategy for truth seeking can’t be true in principle?
It is not an empirical truth. It is at best a logical truth (and only do because of the axioms I choose). Maybe it is possible that there is an empirically optimal strategy—I doubt I’ll ever find it. The best I can do is show that if you accept some axioms, some specific strategy is optimal. The truth of optimality then is analytical rather than synthetic. I do not call what I’m doing truthseeking because of that.