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34 - Reasoning and Conversation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 June 2012

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Lance J. Rips
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Jonathan E. Adler  and
Lance J. Rips
Lance J. Rips
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Northwestern University
Jonathan E. Adler
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Brooklyn College, City University of New York
Lance J. Rips
Affiliation:
Northwestern University, Illinois
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Reasoning
Studies of Human Inference and its Foundations
 , pp. 694 - 730
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2008

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