Sortal Concepts and Causal Continuity: Comment on Rips, Blok, and Newman (2006)

Psychological Review

Volumn 114, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1087-1094

  Rhemtulla, Mijke ^a   Xu, Fei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

causality; identity; individual concepts; object persistence; sortals

Indexed keywords

COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

COGNITION; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION;

EID: 36048954770     PISSN: 0033295X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0033-295X.114.4.1087     Document Type: Article

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