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    It is not the case that Global rationality is a reasonable normative standard but problematic as a descriptive theory of human judgment and decision-making

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    • 1.The normative/descriptive distinction is unstable: a standard that systematically exceeds human cognitive capacity lacks genuine normative force (Gibbard, 1990).
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    • 2.Ought implies can: if global rationality is computationally intractable for finite agents, it cannot serve as a binding normative ideal even in principle.
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    • 1.Ecological rationality research (Gigerenzen & Todd, 1999) demonstrates that heuristics are not failures of global rationality but context-sensitive adaptations that outperform optimization in uncertain environments.
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    • 2.If bounded strategies are demonstrably more accurate than global optimization under real-world conditions, then global rationality is deficient as a normative standard, not merely as a descriptive one.
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    • 1.Aumann's first four arguments implicitly treat global rationality as a reasonable normative standard
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    • 2.Global rationality fails to adequately describe actual human judgment and decision-making behavior
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