Reasoning with quantifiers

Cognition

Volumn 86, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 223-251

  Geurts, Bart ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Generalized quantifiers; Quantification; Semantics; Syllogistic reasoning

Indexed keywords

INFERENCE ENGINES; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PSYCHOLOGY COMPUTING;

QUANTIFICATION;

SEMANTICS;

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; METHODOLOGY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGY; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VALIDATION PROCESS;

COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; SEMANTICS;

EID: 0037212914     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-0277(02)00180-4     Document Type: Article

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