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    Challenges→A strictly dominated strategy will never be rational under any epistemic model for a game.

    An agent with systematically non-standard priors (e.g., lexicographic preferences per Blume, Brandenburger & Dekel 1991) may assign probability zero to certain opponent strategies, making a 'strictly dominated' strategy locally optimal.

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    Blume, Brandenburger & Dekel 1991(academic citation)
    Three economists who published a research paper in 1991 about unusual ways people can have preferences and assign probabilities.
    Lexicographic preferences(in decision theory)
    A way of ranking options where you first satisfy your most important goal completely before considering your second-most important goal, like alphabetizing (hence 'lexicographic').
    Locally optimal(in optimization and decision theory)
    The best choice given a specific set of circumstances or assumptions, even if it might not be best overall.
    Non-standard(in logic and mathematics)
    Something that doesn't match the usual or expected interpretation—in this context, a number-like object that behaves differently than ordinary natural numbers do.
    Opponent strategies

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    (in game theory)
    The different ways an opponent could choose to act in a competitive situation.
    Priors(as used in probability and epistemology)
    Your initial assumptions or beliefs about how likely something is before you consider new evidence (like guessing the probability before looking at the facts).
    Probability zero(in probability theory)
    Believing something is completely impossible—it will definitely not happen.
    agent(Economics terminology applied to medical ethics)
    The party in a principal-agent relationship who is instructed to produce the good or service on the principal's behalf — in the medical context, the doctor
    strictly dominated strategy(Game theory — strategic form games)
    A strategy s_i in S_i is strictly dominated (possibly by a mixed strategy) with respect to a subset X of opponent strategy profiles if and only if there is no probability measure p in the simplex over X such that s_i is a best response with respect to p.

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