Premise Interpretation in Conditional Reasoning

Thinking: Psychological Perspectives on Reasoning, Judgment and Decision Making

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 79-93

  Politzer, Guy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 8   (France)

Author keywords

Complementary necessary condition (CNC); Conditional reasoning; Truth table evaluation tasks

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889339613     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/047001332X.ch5     Document Type: Chapter

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