Bayesians Too Should Follow Wason: A Comprehensive Accuracy-Based Analysis of the Selection Task.
Wason's selection task is a paramount experimental problem in the study of human reasoning, often connected with the celebrated ravens paradox in the philosophical literature. Various normative accounts of the selection task rely on a Bayesian approach. Some claim vindication of participants' ration...
| Publicado en: | British Journal for the Philosophy of Science Vol. 75; no. 2; pp. 347 - 374 |
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University of Chicago Press
Jun2024
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