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    It is not the case that The trade-off argument structurally resembles a just-so story: it retroactively narrates a loss as a gain without independent evidence of the compensatory mechanism.

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    • 1.Trade-offs can be empirically validated through controlled comparisons; just-so stories typically cannot be falsified or tested.
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    • 2.Retroactive narration differs from reasoned inference: trade-offs may reflect genuine causal mechanisms discovered after the fact.
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    • 3.The absence of *stated* evidence doesn't entail absence of compensatory mechanisms; burden of proof depends on the domain.
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    • 1.Just-so stories rationalize outcomes post-hoc by inventing plausible mechanisms without empirical verification of causation.
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    • 2.Trade-off claims often lack mechanistic evidence showing *how* losses generate claimed compensatory gains.
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    • 3.Both narratives share confirmation bias: selectively highlighting benefits while downplaying or ignoring counterfactual harms.
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