Some arguments are probably valid: Syllogistic reasoning as communication

Proceedings of the 36th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 1574-1579

  Tessler, Michael ^a   Goodman, Noah D ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian model; language; QUD; Reasoning

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; COMPUTER CIRCUITS;

BASE MODELS; BAYESIAN MODELLING; COMPUTATIONAL LEVEL; FORMAL REASONING; FORMAL SYSTEMS; LANGUAGE; MODEL PREDICTION; NATURAL LANGUAGES; QUD; REASONING;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS;

EID: 85139246763     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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