Rationalising conventions
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Seumas Miller
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Article
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1990
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Springer Netherlands
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English
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Conformity by an agent to a convention to which the agent is a party is rational only if the agent prefers to conform given the other parties conform and believes the others will conform. But this justification is inadequate; what, for example, is the justification for this belief? The required rati