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    It is not the case that The use of heuristics — including potentially unsound ones — should be regarded as falling under a generalized account of rationality.

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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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    • 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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