Is inferential reasoning just probabilistic reasoning in disguise?
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Is inferential reasoning just probabilistic reasoning in disguise?
Oaksford, Chater, and Larkin (2000) have suggested that people actually use everyday probabilistic reasoning when making deductive inferences. In two studies, we explicitly compared probabilistic and deductive reasoning with identical if-then conditional premises with concrete content. In the first, adults were given causal premises with one strongly associated antecedent and were asked to make...
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عنوان ژورنال: Memory & Cognition
سال: 2005
ISSN: 0090-502X,1532-5946
DOI: 10.3758/bf03193231