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    Challenges→A minimally rational agent need only make some of the valid inferences that follow from the agent's beliefs, not all of them.

    Rationality norms are normative ideals, not descriptive facts about cognitive capacity, per Kant's distinction between 'ought' and 'can'.

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    • 1.Humans frequently violate logical principles (confirmation bias, fallacies), yet we still hold them to rational standards, showing norms differ from capacities.
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    • 2.Normative ideals motivate improvement and self-correction, which would be pointless if rationality were merely descriptive of actual cognitive performance.
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    • 3.Kant's 'ought implies can' principle requires rationality norms to be achievable, but not that they describe what agents typically do achieve.
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    • 1.Norms must be grounded in actual cognitive capacities or they become mere wishes; prescribing the impossible abandons normativity as guidance.
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    • 2.Evolutionary psychology shows reasoning evolved to solve specific adaptive problems, suggesting our norms reflect actual design, not transcendent ideals.
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    • 3.The distinction between 'ought' and 'can' presupposes norms can exist independently of capacities, but this requires justification beyond Kant's framework.
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