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    A minimally rational agent selects only some valid infere... — Carmelics
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    Supports→The use of heuristics — including potentially unsound ones — should be regarded as falling under a generalized account of rationality.

    A minimally rational agent selects only some valid inferences, and the selection may depend on heuristics.

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    if a statement of the form ‘\(\phi\) is known by agent \(i\) on the basis of evidence \(t\)’ is derivable, then a proof of \(\phi\) can be found in time polynomial in the size of \(t\) and \(\phi\). , (Simon 1957; Simon 1972; Rubinstein 1998; Gigerenzer and Selten 2002; Kahneman 2003). This development can be traced to work in decision theory and cognitive psychology which attempts to take into account that human agents face resource limitations in everyday decision making. The attempt to develo

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