Coherence and nonmonotonicity in human reasoning

Synthese

Volumn 146, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 93-109

  Pfeifer, Niki ^a   Kleiter, Gernot D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

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EID: 22344451829     PISSN: 00397857     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11229-005-9073-x     Document Type: Article

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