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Direct linkHolyoak, Keith J.; Lee, Hee Seung; Lu, Hongjing – Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2010
A fundamental issue for theories of human induction is to specify constraints on potential inferences. For inferences based on shared category membership, an analogy, and/or a relational schema, it appears that the basic goal of induction is to make accurate and goal-relevant inferences that are sensitive to uncertainty. People can use source…
Descriptors: Inferences, Logical Thinking, Bayesian Statistics, Causal Models
