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    It is not the case that Substantive rationality requires acting on one's actual strategy, but a player's strategy encodes dispositions at nodes never reached, making off-path rationality assessments counterfactually indeterminate.

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    • 1.Rationality is about reasons and consistency, not just observable behavior; off-path choices reflect a player's actual reasoning structure.
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    • 2.Counterfactual indeterminacy doesn't undermine rationality assessment—beliefs about hypothetical situations can be determinate and evaluable.
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    • 3.Backward induction and perfect equilibrium depend on off-path rationality; eliminating it abandons standard game-theoretic solution concepts.
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    • 1.Strategies specify choices at all nodes; counterfactual nodes lack realized outcomes, so dispositions there have no empirical content.
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    • 2.Rationality assessments require determinate facts; off-path dispositions are unobservable and causally inert, making evaluation metaphysically indeterminate.
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    • 3.Players acting on actual strategies need only satisfy rationality at reached nodes; off-path requirements impose unfalsifiable constraints.
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