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    Challenges→An option is self-ratifying if and only if it maximizes expected utility given its realization.

    Richard Jeffrey's evidential framework shows that conditioning on an option's realization can generate spurious expected utility boosts via evidential relevance rather than causal efficacy.

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    Key Terms

    Evidential framework(as Jeffrey's approach to decision-making)
    A method for making decisions by looking at what evidence or information you have and calculating which choice will probably lead to the best outcome.
    Evidential relevance(as used in epistemology and logic)
    Whether a piece of information actually matters for determining if something is true or false; whether it counts as real evidence.
    Richard Jeffrey(the statement is about his theory)
    A 20th-century philosopher who studied how people update their beliefs when they learn new information, and he developed an important theory about it called probability kinematics.
    Spurious(describing false conclusions that result from confusing entailment and presupposition)
    Fake, false, or not genuine; seeming real or valid but actually mistaken.

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    causal efficacy(Vaibhāṣika causal theory of cognition)
    The capacity of an object to serve as a real cause, which nonexistent objects are held to lack
    conditioning on(describing a restriction placed on political expression)
    Making something depend on or require something else as a prerequisite—like saying 'you can only do X if Y is true first.'
    expected utility(Cited as a domain where aggregated probabilities play a key role)
    A calculation that aggregates probability-weighted outcomes to determine the overall value of a decision

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