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17 - Category-Based Induction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 June 2012

By
Daniel N. Osherson ,
Edward E. Smith ,
Ormond Wilkie ,
Alejandro López  and
Eldar Shafir
Edited by
Jonathan E. Adler  and
Lance J. Rips
Daniel N. Osherson
Affiliation:
Princeton University
Edward E. Smith
Affiliation:
Columbia University New York
Ormond Wilkie
Affiliation:
University of Michigan
Alejandro López
Affiliation:
USOLAB Madrid
Eldar Shafir
Affiliation:
Princeton University
Jonathan E. Adler
Affiliation:
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. 321 - 342
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2008

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