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Comparing the meanings of “if” and “all”

Comparing the meanings of “if” and “all”

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Comparing the meanings of “if” and “all”

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Full title

Comparing the meanings of “if” and “all”

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Publisher

Boston: Springer US

Journal title

Memory & cognition, 2014-11, Vol.42 (8), p.1345-1356

Language

English

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Boston: Springer US

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Contents

In this study, we compared the everyday meanings of conditionals (“if
p
then
q
”) and universally quantified statements (“all
p
are
q
”) when applied to sets of elements. The interpretation of conditionals was predicted to be directly related to the conditional probability, such that
P
(“if
p
then
q
”) =

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Comparing the meanings of “if” and “all”

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TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_1618139848

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_1618139848

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ISSN

0090-502X

E-ISSN

1532-5946

DOI

10.3758/s13421-014-0442-x

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