The Rationality of Informal Argumentation: A Bayesian Approach to Reasoning Fallacies

Psychological Review

Volumn 114, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 704-732

  Hahn, Ulrike ^a   Oaksford, Mike ^b  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

argumentation; Bayesian probability; fallacies; informal reasoning

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CONFLICT; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; LEARNING; LOGIC; PERSUASIVE COMMUNICATION; SEMANTICS;

BAYES THEOREM; CULTURE; DISSENT AND DISPUTES; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; JUDGMENT; LOGIC; PERSUASIVE COMMUNICATION; PROBABILITY LEARNING; SEMANTICS;

EID: 34548845565     PISSN: 0033295X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0033-295X.114.3.704     Document Type: Article

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