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    Challenges→The single-state epistemic-probability model assigning profile (u, l) does not satisfy common knowledge of rationality in the relevant sense.

    The caution requirement reflects Brandenburger and Dekel's correlated rationalizability refinement, which is a substantive additional constraint beyond common knowledge of rationality itself.

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    Key Terms

    Brandenburger and Dekel(names of scholars cited for a specific concept)
    Two economists and game theorists who developed important ideas about how people make decisions when they know others are also making rational decisions.
    Caution requirement(as the main concept being explained in the statement)
    A principle suggesting that when people are uncertain about others' choices, they should consider the possibility of bad outcomes and make conservative decisions accordingly.
    Correlated rationalizability(as a refinement or improvement on basic game theory concepts)
    A way of analyzing decisions in games where players can consider not just their own smart choices, but also patterns in how others might coordinate their smart choices together.
    Refinement(describing how correlated rationalizability relates to simpler concepts)
    An improvement or narrowing down of a concept that makes it more precise or adds extra requirements beyond the original version.

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    common knowledge of rationality(Epistemic game theory)
    An epistemic condition in which all players are rational, all players know all players are rational, all players know that all players know all players are rational, and so on ad infinitum
    constraint(canonical formulations of general relativity and electromagnetism)
    A condition encoding the fact that canonical variables cannot be specified independently of one another.
    knowledge(Distinguished from mere true belief, which may be the product of indoctrination and need not exercise deliberative capacities.)
    Justified true belief — true belief that has been arrived at through the exercise of deliberative capacities, including comparison of and deliberation among alternatives.
    substantive(classification of linguistic forms by their role in expressing categories of thought)
    The linguistic form required to express thought's apprehension of independent objects

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