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    It is not the case that An option is self-ratifying if and only if it maximizes expected utility given its realization.

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    • 1.An option can be self-ratifying even when chosen for the wrong reasons, making ratification extensionally adequate but normatively vacuous.
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    • 2.Richard Jeffrey's evidential framework shows that conditioning on an option's realization can generate spurious expected utility boosts via evidential relevance rather than causal efficacy.
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    • 3.A decision procedure that endorses itself upon reflection does not thereby become rational; self-endorsement is not a sufficient criterion for rational choice.
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    • 1.Eells (1982) demonstrated that ratificationism can license intransitive preferences by permitting different self-ratifying options across structurally identical decision problems.
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    • 2.If multiple options are simultaneously self-ratifying in a single decision matrix, the criterion fails to uniquely prescribe action and collapses into permissivism rather than decision theory.
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    • 1.Ratification is defined in terms of an option's expected utility given its realization rather than given a decision to realize it.
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    • 2.An option that maximizes expected utility given its own realization meets the ratification condition.
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