Elaborative inferences on an expository text
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On-line evidence for elaborative logical inferences in text.
A model of propositional-logic reasoning proposed by M. D. S. Braine, B. J. Reiser, and B. Rumain (1984) claims that inferences such as "p or q; not p/therefore q" are made spontaneously by readers at the moment both premises are available. This claim is inconsistent with some evidence in the text-processing literature that suggests that only those inferences necessary for textual coherence are...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Contemporary Educational Psychology
سال: 1991
ISSN: 0361-476X
DOI: 10.1016/0361-476x(91)90012-a