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    Strict dominance is defined relative to a fixed strategy ... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→A strictly dominated strategy will never be rational under any epistemic model for a game.

    Strict dominance is defined relative to a fixed strategy space, but bounded rationality (Simon 1955) entails agents may not correctly represent or enumerate that full space.

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    • 1.Cognitive limitations are empirically documented: humans have finite working memory and attention, making complete strategy enumeration impossible.
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    • 2.Theoretical definitions of dominance assume perfect information and unlimited computation, but real agents operate under resource constraints.
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    • 3.If agents misrepresent strategy spaces, dominance relations may not hold in their subjective decision model, making the formal definition inapplicable.
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    • 1.Dominance is a mathematical property of the objective strategy space, independent of any agent's beliefs or cognitive capacities about it.
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    • 2.Bounded rationality explains *why* agents fail to recognize dominant strategies, but doesn't change whether dominance objectively exists.
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    • 3.Conflating objective strategy relations with subjective agent representations conflates epistemology with ontology—different analytical levels.
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