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Defending explanatory coherence

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 May 2011

Paul Thagard
Paul Thagard
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Cognitive Science Laboratory, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08542, Electronic mail: pault@clarity.princeton.edu
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 14 , Issue 4 , December 1991 , pp. 745 - 748
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