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    Challenges→Transitivity of preferences is a plausible rationality condition.

    Preferences can be legitimately context-dependent, making apparent intransitivity reflect rational sensitivity to framing rather than incoherence.

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    • 1.Rational agents adjust preferences based on salient information in context without violating coherence principles.
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    • 2.Framing effects reveal legitimate sensitivity to decision-relevant features, not systematic irrationality.
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    • 3.Preferences over outcomes differ rationally from preferences over descriptions of identical outcomes.
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    • 1.If choices reflect genuine preference reversals across logically identical contexts, this violates transitivity axioms.
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    • 2.Attributing context-sensitivity to rationality risks making any preference pattern unfalsifiable and immune to critique.
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    • 3.Standard decision theory requires stable preferences over outcomes; context-dependence suggests missing information in the model.
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