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    Challenges→Extremely demanding epistemic norms are sometimes inappropriate even if they can technically be satisfied

    Deeming a satisfiable norm 'inappropriate' because it is demanding conflates the normative question of what we ought to believe with the descriptive question of what we typically do believe.

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    • 1.Normative standards should be evaluated by logical consistency and truth, not by human psychological capacity to meet them.
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    • 2.Conflating 'difficult to believe' with 'inappropriate to believe' permits false norms to persist if humans naturally adopt them.
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    • 3.Demanding norms have historically driven moral and intellectual progress beyond our initial comfort.
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    • 1.Cognitive architecture genuinely constrains which norms are rationally adoptable; demanding the impossible isn't normative.
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    • 2.The distinction between 'ought' and 'is' doesn't entail ignoring facts about what humans can sustainably practice.
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    • 3.Calling demanding norms 'appropriate' without addressing implementation may render them practically inert and therefore useless.
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    Key Terms

    Conflates(in argumentation and logic)
    Treats two different things as if they're the same thing, or mixes them up in a way that causes confusion.
    Normative question(as contrasted with genetic questions about causation)
    A question about what should be true or what counts as right, proper, or justified—as opposed to what actually is the case.
    Satisfiable norm(as used in ethics and logic)
    A rule or standard about how we should behave that is actually possible to follow.
    descriptive question(in philosophy and research methodology)
    A question about what *actually is* the case or what *has happened* in reality, without judgment about whether it's good or bad.

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