Reasoning with conditionals

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Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 79-95

  Politzer, Guy ^a  

^a INSTITUT JEAN NICOD   (France)

Author keywords

Conditional; Deduction; Defeasible reasoning; Human reasoning; Mental models; Mental rules; Natural logic; Probabilistic reasoning

Indexed keywords

EID: 34248362449     PISSN: 01677411     EISSN: 15728749     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11245-006-9001-9     Document Type: Article

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