Inferences about members of kinds: The generics hypothesis

Language and Cognitive Processes

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 887-900

  Khemlani, Sangeet ^a   Leslie, Sarah Jane ^a   Glucksberg, Sam ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Concepts; Default inferences; Generics; Generics hypothesis; Non monotonic reasoning

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GENERICS HYPOTHESIS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; INFERENCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 84863508954     PISSN: 01690965     EISSN: 14640732     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01690965.2011.601900     Document Type: Article

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