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

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    • 1.Rationality norms are prescriptive ideals, not descriptive summaries of what agents find computationally convenient.
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    • 2.Kant's distinction between hypothetical and categorical imperatives entails that pragmatic efficiency cannot ground normative rational status.
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    • 3.Classifying heuristics as 'rational' because they are useful conflates instrumental success with epistemic justification.
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    • 1.Tversky and Kahneman's own research demonstrates that availability and representativeness heuristics produce systematic, predictable errors.
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    • 2.A generalized rationality account that licenses inference strategies producing systematic errors is self-undermining, as Goldman argues in 'Epistemics'.
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    • 3.Computational tractability constraints explain why agents use heuristics but do not normatively justify treating their outputs as rational beliefs.
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    • 1.Heuristics of the kind studied by cognitive psychologists such as Tversky and Kahneman may benefit an agent in certain circumstances.
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    • 2.A rationality account informed by computational complexity theory permits inference strategies that are not deductively complete.
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