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Can human irrationality be experimentally demonstrated?

L. Jonathan Cohen

Behavioral and Brain Sciences 4 (3):317-370 (1981) Copy BIBT_EX

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The object of this paper is to show why recent research in the psychology of deductive and probabilistic reasoning does not have

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Deductive Reasoning in Epistemology

Rationality and Cognitive Science in Philosophy of Cognitive Science

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competence deduction fallacy intuition probability judgments rationality reasoning

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