Split identity: Intransitive judgments of the identity of objects

Cognition

Volumn 119, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 356-373

  Rips, Lance J ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Equality; Identity; Object concepts; Ship of Theseus; Singular concepts; Transitivity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IDENTITY; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MENTAL TASK; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLIT IDENTITY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; READING; SEMANTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79953310294     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2011.01.019     Document Type: Article

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