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    An option can be self-ratifying even when chosen for the ... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→An option is self-ratifying if and only if it maximizes expected utility given its realization.

    An option can be self-ratifying even when chosen for the wrong reasons, making ratification extensionally adequate but normatively vacuous.

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    • 1.Self-ratification requires only coherence between choice and reflective endorsement, independent of what motivated the initial selection.
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    • 2.A choice can satisfy practical rationality standards while originating from epistemic vice, making normative evaluation separate from functional adequacy.
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    • 3.If ratification tracks only whether you'd choose again, not why you chose, then reasons are causally irrelevant to its extensional success.
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    • 1.Ratification of a choice made for wrong reasons merely masks irrationality rather than legitimizing it—the defect persists in epistemic quality.
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    • 2.Normative adequacy cannot be truly separated from extensional success; endorsing a badly-reasoned choice corrupts the normative status of both.
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    • 3.If we accept vacuous self-ratification as legitimate, we abandon the distinction between rational and merely stable preferences.
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