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    It is not the case that Effective behavior can be aided by inaccurate judgments or cognitively adaptive illusions

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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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    • 1.Amplified small-sample correlations systematically overfit local environments, generating maladaptive behavior when agents move to novel contexts.
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    • 2.A cognitive mechanism that aids learning in stable niches but fails under environmental change cannot be credited as genuinely effective behavior-guidance.
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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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