Common sense in philosophical and scientific perspective

Management Decision

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 399-412

  Redekop, Benjamin W ^a  

^a CHRISTOPHER NEWPORT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognition; Decision making; Intuition; Perception; Philosophical concepts

Indexed keywords

EID: 67651052119     PISSN: 00251747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00251740910946679     Document Type: Review

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