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    It is not the case that Allais's paradox empirically demonstrates that agents violate independence while satisfying completeness and transitivity, revealing a normative gap the barebones theory cannot address.

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    • 1.Allais paradox reflects presentation effects and framing biases, not deep rational failures—agents with clearer decision procedures may comply with independence.
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    • 2.Expected utility remains the best-justified normative standard available; empirical violations don't establish what agents *should* do, only what they do.
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    • 3.Alternative theories (rank-dependent utility, prospect theory) also violate some rationality axioms, so Allais doesn't uniquely expose a normative gap.
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    • 1.Allais experiments show robust, systematic violations of independence across diverse populations, not mere noise or misunderstanding.
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    • 2.Agents simultaneously satisfy completeness and transitivity while violating independence, proving these three axioms are genuinely incompatible.
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    • 3.Expected utility theory claims to be normative yet generates prescriptions agents rationally reject, indicating a real normative inadequacy.
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