Walter the banker: The conjunction fallacy reconsidered

Synthese

Volumn 184, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 73-87

  Hartmann, Stephan ^a   Meijs, Wouter ^a  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bayesian epistemology; Conjunction fallacy; Linda problem; Psychology of reasoning

Indexed keywords

EID: 83355176370     PISSN: 00397857     EISSN: 15730964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11229-009-9694-6     Document Type: Article

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