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Is the second-step conditionalization unnecessary?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 February 2009

In-mao Liu
In-mao Liu
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Department of Psychology, National Chung-Cheng University, Chia-Yi 621, Taiwan. psyiml@ccu.edu.tw
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Abstract

Because the addition of the conditional premise tends to increase modus ponens (MP) inferences, Oaksford & Chater argue that the additional knowledge is assimilated to world knowledge before the Ramsey test is carried out to evaluate P(q|p), so that the process of applying the Ramsey test could become indistinguishable from the process of applying the second-step conditionalization.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 32 , Issue 1 , February 2009 , pp. 92 - 93
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2009

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