Two varieties of conditionals and two kinds of defeaters help reveal two fundamental types of reasoning

Mind and Language

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 484-503

  Politzer, Guy ^a   Bonnefon, Jean François ^b  

^a INSTITUT JEAN NICOD   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

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EID: 33747632088     PISSN: 02681064     EISSN: 14680017     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0017.2006.00289.x     Document Type: Article

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