Walter the banker: the conjunction fallacy reconsidered

DOI10.1007/S11229-009-9694-6MaRDI QIDQ408360zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Stephan Hartmann, Wouter Meijs

Publication date 5 April 2012

Published in Synthese (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-009-9694-6

zbMATH Keywords

Bayesian epistemologyconjunction fallacyLinda problempsychology of reasoning

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Logic in the philosophy of science (03A10)

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