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    It is not the case that The use of heuristics—including potentially unsound ones—can fall within a generalized account of rationality.

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    • 1.Rationality norms are normative ideals that cannot be reduced to descriptive accounts of what agents can feasibly accomplish.
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    • 2.Kant's distinction between hypothetical and categorical imperatives shows that resource constraints are empirical facts, not rational standards.
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    • 3.Accommodating unsound inference to feasibility collapses the is-ought distinction central to any defensible theory of rationality.
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    • 1.Aristotle's phronesis requires that practical wisdom aim at truth, not merely at computationally tractable approximations of truth.
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    • 2.Permitting unsound heuristics under a 'generalized' rationality standard removes the normative traction needed to distinguish good from bad reasoning.
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    • 1.Human agents face resource limitations that make computationally optimal reasoning infeasible.
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    • 2.Heuristics considered by cognitive psychologists may be of benefit to agents in certain circumstances.
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    • 3.A theory of rationality informed by computational complexity theory should accommodate feasible inference strategies.
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