Default Reasoning: Jumping to Conclusions and Knowing When to Think Twice

Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 65 (1):37 (1984)
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Look before you leap. - Proverb. He who hesitates is lost. - Another proverb

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10.1111/j.1468-0114.1984.tb00212.x

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