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    It is not the case that A fugitive with incomplete knowledge of the pursuer's rationality level cannot treat the game as having a well-defined mixed-strategy Nash equilibrium, undermining the die-roll prescription.

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    • 1.Mixed-strategy equilibria can be optimal under uncertainty about opponent type via Bayesian Nash equilibrium frameworks without requiring complete information.
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    • 2.A randomization strategy remains instrumentally rational even if the fugitive cannot perfectly model the pursuer; it hedges against multiple possible types.
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    • 3.The claim conflates 'well-defined equilibrium exists mathematically' with 'agent can derive it,' but randomization may be justified without full derivation.
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    • 1.Nash equilibrium requires common knowledge of payoff structures and rationality; epistemic gaps about pursuer rationality violate this requirement.
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    • 2.Without knowing if the pursuer is rational, irrational, or bounded-rational, the fugitive cannot calculate expected utilities for mixed strategies.
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    • 3.Die-roll prescriptions assume the game's mathematical structure is accessible to the player; uncertainty about opponent type destabilizes this assumption.
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