Type:
Volume:
28(1)
Pages:
online
Year:
2004
Publisher:
Cognitive Science
URL:
http://www.princeton.edu/~osherson/papers/katya14.pdf
Abstract:
It is easy to construct pairs of sentences X, Y that lead many people to ascribe higher probability to<br>the conjunction X-and-Y than to the conjuncts X, Y. Whether an error is thereby committed depends<br>on reasoners' interpretation of the expressions "probability" and "and." We report two experiments<br>designed to clarify the normative status of typical responses to conjunction problems.
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