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Abstract: ications. A variety of factors bring about the need for ceteris paribus qualifications in psychological laws. People sometimes fail to infer what is implied by their antecedent beliefs because of inattention or illogic, but some exceptions to the law of Pure Reason reflect attentive logical acumen at its best. For example, if agent A who believes proposition P and believes that P implies proposition Q has good antecedent reason to doubt Q, A might conclude that it is more reasonable to question ... (Update)
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@misc{ bedau-supple,
author = "Mark A. Bedau",
title = "Supple Laws in Psychology and Biology",
url = "citeseer.ist.psu.edu/202840.html" }
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