On an alleged truth/falsity asymmetry in context shifting experiments

Philosophical Quarterly

Volumn 62, Issue 248, 2012, Pages 530-545

  Hansen, Nat ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

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EID: 84862622074     PISSN: 00318094     EISSN: 14679213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9213.2012.00059.x     Document Type: Article

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51. Thanks to Paul Egré, Mikkel Gerken, Emmanuel Chemla, Ben Chan, Jason Bridges, Martin Gustafsson, Chauncey Maher, Eliot Michaelson, Zed Adams, members of the Doc'in Nicod workshop at the Institut Jean-Nicod, audience members at Åbo Akademi, and the anonymous reviewers for this journal for their helpful comments on the contents of this paper. The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Research Council under the European Community's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013)/ERC grant agreement no. 229 441-CCC.