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    Challenges→Theoretical rationality should not automatically be overridden by practical rationality when the two conflict

    Practical rationality and theoretical rationality are distinct and can pull in opposite directions

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    Finally, one might distinguish between practical rationality and theoretical rationality. One could then concede that practical rationality requires you to maximize expected utility, while insisting that theoretical rationality might require something else of you—say, proportioning belief to the amount of evidence available. This objection is especially relevant, since Pascal admits that perhaps you “must renounce reason” in order to follow his advice. But when these two sides of rationality pul

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