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    It is not the case that There is no compelling reason to expect players to choose NE, SPE, or sequential-equilibrium strategies across wide ranges of social interactions.

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    • 1.NE and SPE are brittle solution concepts sensitive to other players' learning states.
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    • 2.Bayesian principles cannot ground rational play in large worlds.
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    • 3.Without a viable general theory of strategic rationality, the normative basis for expecting equilibrium play collapses.
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    • 1.Herbert Simon's bounded rationality thesis establishes that agents optimize under cognitive constraints, not against idealized equilibrium benchmarks.
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    • 2.Kahneman and Tversky's prospect theory demonstrates systematic deviations from expected utility maximization that equilibrium concepts presuppose.
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    • 3.If the psychological foundations of NE require full rationality that actual agents lack, NE loses normative grip across realistic social interactions.
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    • 1.Wittgenstein's rule-following considerations show that no finite behavior uniquely determines a rational strategy rule, undermining convergent equilibrium predictions.
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    • 2.Brian Skyrms's evolutionary game theory shows that populations converge on correlated equilibria via learning dynamics, not NE via individual deliberation.
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    • 3.The actual coordinating force in social interaction is salience and convention, as Schelling demonstrated, not Nash-optimal calculation.
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