 Joshua DiPaolo (2019) develops one version of this view. Drawing on work in political philosophy, he argues that we need an epistemological “theory of the second best”. On his proposed view, the norms that apply to ideal agents are different from the norms that apply to non-ideal agents. While the ideal norms define a standard of perfection for all of us, non-ideal norms tell us how to approach that standard, taking our imperfections into account. DiPaolo argues that this approach allows us to resolve the apparent tensions involved in accommodating higher-order evidence: ideal rationality requires ignoring higher-order evidence, but non-ideal rationality requires respecting it.