Go ahead, prove that God does not exist! On high school students' ability to deal with fallacious arguments

Learning and Instruction

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 367-380

  Neuman, Yair ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Argumentation and cognition; Fallacious arguments; Inference and text comprehension

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037411650     PISSN: 09594752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-4752(02)00011-7     Document Type: Article

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