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    The use of heuristics—even potentially unsound ones—should be regarded as falling under a generalized account of rationality

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    • 1.Heuristics may be of benefit to an agent in certain circumstances
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    • 2.A generalized account of rationality must be informed by computational complexity theory
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    • 3.Minimal rationality only requires that an agent make some valid inferences, not all
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    • 1.Rationality requires not merely some valid inferences but inferences governed by norms that are reliably truth-conducive across contexts.
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    • 2.Unsound heuristics, by definition, can yield systematically false conclusions, violating the truth-conduciveness criterion Alvin Goldman's reliabilism demands.
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    • 3.A generalized account of rationality that permits systematically unreliable processes conflates pragmatic usefulness with epistemic justification.
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    • 1.Kant's account of rationality requires that the maxims governing reasoning be universalizable, not merely locally expedient for a given agent.
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    • 2.Heuristics that are potentially unsound cannot be universalized without generating contradictions in the very epistemic norms they presuppose.
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    • 3.Computational tractability constrains implementation but cannot revise the normative standards by which reasoning is evaluated as rational or irrational.
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    as hard as the Halting Problem). g. Levesque 1984; Stalnaker 1991; 1999). Another reaction has been to attempt to modify the interpretation of the language of epistemic logic to mitigate the effects of (i) and (ii). g. through the use of so-called impossible worlds (Rantala 1982), awareness models (Fagin and Halpern 1988), or local models (Fagin and Halpern 1988). g. that knowledge of a conjunction entails knowledge of its conjuncts). An approach to logical omniscience which explicitly takes com
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