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

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    • 1.A minimally rational agent selects only some valid inferences, and the selection may depend on heuristics.
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    • 2.Heuristics can be of benefit to an agent in certain circumstances even if they are not logically sound.
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    • 3.A generalized account of rationality informed by computational complexity theory accommodates such heuristic-based reasoning.
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    • 1.Rationality norms are prescriptive ideals, not descriptive accounts of cognitive performance under resource constraints.
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    • 2.Conflating what agents can compute with what they ought to reason licenses epistemic complacency rather than genuine rational improvement.
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    • 3.Simon's bounded rationality describes psychological facts about agents, but Kant and Korsgaard ground rationality in unconditioned normative demands.
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    • 1.An unsound heuristic that systematically produces false beliefs violates the truth-conduciveness condition central to reliabilist epistemology (Goldman 1979).
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    • 2.Classifying unsound inference procedures as 'rational' severs the constitutive link between rationality and reliable belief-formation that justifies calling any process rational.
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    if a statement of the form ‘\(\phi\) is known by agent \(i\) on the basis of evidence \(t\)’ is derivable, then a proof of \(\phi\) can be found in time polynomial in the size of \(t\) and \(\phi\). , (Simon 1957; Simon 1972; Rubinstein 1998; Gigerenzer and Selten 2002; Kahneman 2003). This development can be traced to work in decision theory and cognitive psychology which attempts to take into account that human agents face resource limitations in everyday decision making. The attempt to develo
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