Can natural language semantics explain syllogistic reasoning?

Cognition

Volumn 90, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 193-199

  Newstead, Stephen E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

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Indexed keywords

COGNITION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; ERROR; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LINGUISTICS; LOGIC; NOTE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; SEMANTICS; THEORY; THINKING;

EID: 0242321782     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-0277(03)00117-3     Document Type: Note

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