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This illustrates the good generalization properties of semantic inference.
From a practical perspective new inference procedures arise that possess good properties.
Thus, Lange argues, the necessity of an inference is independent of psychological accounts of how we grasp the content of a proposition.
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John Wright, Matthew Drinkwater 
01 Dec 1997-Social Cognition
15 Citations
Our methods illustrate how prescriptive models of inference can be coupled with the descriptive study of accuracy.
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Zhen Wen, Ching-Yung Lin 
24 Oct 2011
16 Citations
The results can inform practical applications how the inference quality would change in various scenarios.
The results increase the understanding of how categories are used in inductive inference.

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