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    It is not the case that Bounded rationality can be understood as optimization under constraints

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    • 1.Simon's original bounded rationality thesis holds that satisficing replaces optimization, not merely constrains it.
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    • 2.Reframing satisficing as 'optimization under constraints' smuggles in the very utility-maximization framework Simon sought to displace.
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    • 3.A framework that reabsorbs its own critique by redefinition cannot count as a genuine theoretical alternative to classical rationality.
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    • 1.Gigerenzer's ecological rationality program demonstrates that fast-and-frugal heuristics outperform optimization models in real-world uncertainty.
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    • 2.If heuristics succeed precisely by ignoring available information rather than processing it under constraint, the optimization framework mischaracterizes the mechanism of bounded rationality.
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    • 1.Optimization methods, dominance reasoning, and logical consistency are bedrock normative principles
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    • 2.Approaches committed to these principles interpret bounded rationality as constrained optimization rather than a departure from rationality
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