Effective behavior can be aided by inaccurate judgments o... — Carmelics

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Effective behavior can be aided by inaccurate judgments or cognitively adaptive illusions

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1.Small-sample correlations are amplified beyond their true population values, yielding an inaccurate judgment
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2.This amplification makes correlations easier to detect, which aids learning and decision-making
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1.Nozick and Quine's epistemic norms require that beliefs reliably track truth across modal environments, not merely in locally favorable conditions.
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2.A bias that produces accurate outputs only incidentally—through correlation with a narrow task—lacks the counterfactual robustness required to count as epistemically adaptive.
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3.Therefore, calling such illusions 'cognitively adaptive' conflates short-run performance with the structural reliability that genuine epistemic virtue demands.
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