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    It is not the case that Holding contradictory judgments simultaneously violates basic norms of rational agency in ways that make the posited mechanism explanatorily incoherent.

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    • 1.Humans routinely hold contradictory implicit and explicit beliefs without losing rational agency status.
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    • 2.Compartmentalization and context-sensitivity can preserve agency coherence despite surface contradictions.
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    • 3.Rationality norms may be aspirational ideals rather than necessary conditions for being an agent at all.
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    • 1.Rational agency requires coherence: agents must have stable dispositions to act on their commitments.
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    • 2.Contradictory judgments undermine explanatory power because they give no determinate prediction of behavior.
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    • 3.Norms of rationality are constitutive of agency itself, not merely regulative constraints on it.
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