Is the Search for Truth a Game?

The terrors beyond our cognitive sandboxes

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Have you noticed how gameshow trivia mixes up the truth with getting an answer “correct”?

If the question is whether a war happened in one year rather than another, and a contestant guesses the wrong year, her answer is supposed to be false. Truth in that context is a game, and both the questions and their…