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    If the goal of inquiry shifts to distinguishing choice-go... — Carmelics
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    If the goal of inquiry shifts to distinguishing choice-governed behavior from biologically precluded behavior, the lens model itself would likely be abandoned in favor of a different framework.

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    • 1.Reclassifying ε_s as an environmental constraint under a choice-versus-constraint framing would require a different analytical model.
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    • 2.Under such a reframing, the parameter ε_s in the lens model would no longer be the relevant reference point.
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    • 1.Brunswik's lens model has been extended to accommodate ecological constraints without abandoning its core correlational architecture (Hammond, 1996).
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    • 2.A framework can incorporate new explanatory categories—such as biological preclusion—by redefining variable domains rather than requiring wholesale replacement.
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    • 3.The claim conflates a shift in *interpretive goals* with a necessary change in *formal modeling structure*, which does not follow without additional argument.
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    • 1.Marr's tri-level analysis (computational, algorithmic, implementational) shows that biological constraints can be captured at the implementational level while preserving higher-level models intact.
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    • 2.Distinguishing choice-governed from biologically precluded behavior is an implementational question that need not displace a computational-level lens model.
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    Key Terms

    Inquiry(Peirce's epistemology)
    An end-directed process leading from doubt-prone to doubt-proof beliefs.
    biologically precluded behavior(as used in philosophy of action)
    Actions that are impossible for a person to do because of physical or biological limitations (like humans can't fly without tools).
    choice-governed behavior(as used in philosophy of action and free will)
    Actions that a person deliberately decides to do, where they could have chosen differently.
    framework(Carnap's philosophy of language and logic)
    A structured system of rules or language that must be in place for rational discourse to be possible.
    lens model(Used to study ecological validity of an organism's judgments)
    A linear model of judgment that divides subject from environment, inheriting a clean subject/environment distinction from signal detection theory, originally developed to improve radar system accuracy.

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    In light of this formulation of the lens model, return to Simon’s remarks concerning the classification of environmental affordance versus behavioral constraint. The conception of the lens model as a linear model is indebted to signal detection theory, which was developed to improve the accuracy of early radar systems. Thus, the model inherits from engineering a clean division between subject and environment. However, suppose for a moment that both the environmental mechanism producing the crite
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