Framing human inference by coherence based probability logic

Journal of Applied Logic

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 206-217

  Pfeifer, Niki ^a   Kleiter, Gernot D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

Author keywords

Argument forms; Conditional; Human reasoning; Probability logic

Indexed keywords

ARGUMENT FORMS; CONDITIONAL; CONDITIONAL INFERENCES; DEDUCTIVE REASONINGS; HUMAN REASONING; LOGIC AND PROBABILITIES; PROBABILISTIC ARGUMENTS; PROBABILITY LOGIC; PROCESS MODELS; REFERENCE THEORIES;

PROBABILITY;

EID: 64149110547     PISSN: 15708683     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jal.2007.11.005     Document Type: Article

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