The Extraordinary Ordinary Powers of Abductive Reasoning

Theory & Psychology

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 841-860

  Shank, Gary ^a  

^a DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

abduction; abductive reasoning; cognition; logic

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032334879     PISSN: 09593543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959354398086007     Document Type: Article

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