Symposium on "Cognition and Rationality: Part I" Relevance effects in reasoning

Mind and Society

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 229-245

  Van Der Henst, Jean Baptiste ^a  

^a INSTITUT DES SCIENCES COGNITIVES   (France)

Author keywords

2 4 6 Problem; Relevance and reasoning; The relevance of conclusions

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750025373     PISSN: 15937879     EISSN: 18601839     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11299-006-0019-x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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