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Learning rules and learning rules

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Howard Rachlin
Howard Rachlin
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Psychology Department, State University of New York, Stony Brook, N.Y. 11794
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 7 , Issue 1 , March 1984 , pp. 113 - 114
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