AIM Framework glossary
Rationality Misattribution Principle
Canonical definition
The Rationality Misattribution Principle is the named result establishing that apparent violations of classical probability axioms in social decision-making, including conjunction fallacies, order effects, and preference reversals, are not failures of rationality but predictable consequences of non-Boolean Belief dynamics operating under Mimetic coupling (κ \> 0), provable only within the vector-space probability framework of Quantum Epistemology.
Explanation
Classical probability assumes Beliefs combine according to Boolean logic, so that a conjunction can never be more probable than either of its conjuncts. But decades of experiments show that people routinely violate these axioms in social contexts, for example, judging "Linda is a feminist bank teller" as more probable than "Linda is a bank teller." The Rationality Misattribution Principle shows these violations are structural consequences of non-commutative Belief updating in coupled systems, not evidence of stupidity. When Belief states are represented as vectors in Hilbert space rather than as points in classical probability space, the "violations" become mathematically predicted outputs of the architecture. The principle matters for AIM because it shows that M-coupling doesn't merely add noise to rational Belief-formation, it changes the algebraic regime in which Beliefs operate. See Quantum Epistemology (QE), Coupling-Concealment Identity, Non-Boolean Probability. Framework-Specific Principle.
Epistemic status
Framework-Specific Principle.