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Frank C. Keil
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Concepts, Kinds, and Cognitive Development
1989 · 1,886 citations
Concepts, kinds, and cognitive development
1990 · 1,691 citations
Explanation and Understanding
2005 · 1,340 citations
The misunderstood limits of folk science: an illusion of explanatory depth
2002 · 1,024 citations
Conceptualizing a Nonnatural Entity: Anthropomorphism in God Concepts
1996 · 769 citations
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Illusions of Understanding in the Sciences
Computational Brain & Behavior
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2026
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3 authors
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21
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Intuitive Theories
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2024
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1 author
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other
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3
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Belief Digitization: Do We Treat Uncertainty as Probabilities or as Bits?
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2022
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2 authors
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preprint
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3
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Understanding “Why:” How Implicit Questions Shape Explanation Preferences
Cognitive Science
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2022
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3 authors
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18
citations
Win–win denial: The psychological underpinnings of zero-sum thinking.
Journal of Experimental Psychology General
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2021
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2 authors
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Open access
69
citations
The trajectory of counterfactual simulation in development.
Developmental Psychology
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2021
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7 authors
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48
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Belief digitization: Do we treat uncertainty as probabilities or as bits?
Journal of Experimental Psychology General
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2019
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2 authors
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31
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Generics designate kinds but not always essences
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
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2019
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2 authors
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62
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The Binary Bias: A Systematic Distortion in the Integration of Information
Psychological Science
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2018
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2 authors
82
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Psychological Underpinnings of Zero-Sum Thinking
SSRN Electronic Journal
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2018
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3 authors
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preprint
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13
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When in doubt: Using confidence and consensus as 'summary statistics' of collective knowledge.
eScholarship (California Digital Library)
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2018
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2 authors
1
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Belief Digitization: Do We Treat Uncertainty as Probabilities or as Bits?
SSRN Electronic Journal
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2018
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2 authors
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preprint
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1
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Categories and Constraints in Causal Perception
Psychological Science
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2017
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6 authors
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84
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Opponent Uses of Simplicity and Complexity in Causal Explanation.
eScholarship (California Digital Library)
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2017
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3 authors
5
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Little Bayesians or little Einsteins? Probability and explanatory virtue in children's inferences
Developmental Science
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2016
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4 authors
51
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The Influence of Social Interaction on Intuitions of Objectivity and Subjectivity
Cognitive Science
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2016
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4 authors
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64
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Overoptimism about future knowledge: Early arrogance?
The Journal of Positive Psychology
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2016
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3 authors
37
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Decision-Making and Biases in Causal-Explanatory Reasoning.
eScholarship (California Digital Library)
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2016
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3 authors
10
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The better part of not knowing: Virtuous ignorance.
Developmental Psychology
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2015
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3 authors
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38
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The Curse of Expertise: When More Knowledge Leads to Miscalibrated Explanatory Insight
Cognitive Science
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2015
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2 authors
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77
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Predictions from Uncertain Beliefs
eScholarship (California Digital Library)
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2015
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2 authors
17
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Belief utility as an explanatory virtue
eScholarship (California Digital Library)
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2015
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3 authors
4
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Simplicity and Goodness-of-Fit in Explanation: The Case of Intuitive Curve-Fitting.
eScholarship (California Digital Library)
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2014
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2 authors
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20
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Inferred Evidence in Latent Scope Explanations
eScholarship (California Digital Library)
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2014
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3 authors
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11
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The roots of folk biology
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
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2013
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1 author
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12
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Running on Empty? How Folk Science Gets By With Less
Current Directions in Psychological Science
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2012
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1 author
39
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Does folk science develop?
American Psychological Association eBooks
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2012
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1 author
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chapter
3
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The scope and limits of overimitation in the transmission of artefact culture
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
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2011
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5 authors
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Open access
266
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Science Starts Early
Science
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2011
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1 author
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editorial
39
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WHEN AND WHY DO HEDGEHOGS AND FOXES DIFFER?
Critical Review
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2010
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1 author
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8
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Early understandings of the link between agents and order
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
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2010
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4 authors
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115
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The Feasibility of Folk Science
Cognitive Science
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2010
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1 author
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94
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Adapted Minds and Evolved Schools
Educational Psychologist
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2008
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1 author
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17
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Where Is the Essence? Developmental Shifts in Children’s Beliefs About Internal Features
Child Development
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2008
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2 authors
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69
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Children’s sensitivity to circular explanations
Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
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2008
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3 authors
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76
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Children’s developing notions of (im)partiality
Cognition
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2008
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2 authors
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53
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Discerning the Division of Cognitive Labor: An Emerging Understanding of How Knowledge Is Clustered in Other Minds
Cognitive Science
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2008
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5 authors
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149
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Biases towards internal features in infants’ reasoning about objects
Cognition
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2007
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4 authors
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61
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The hidden structure of overimitation
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
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2007
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3 authors
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733
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From ugly duckling to swan?
Cognitive Development
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2007
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4 authors
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93
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What Do Children Want to Know About Animals and Artifacts?
Psychological Science
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2006
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4 authors
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204
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Patterns of Knowledge Growth and Decline
Oxford University Press eBooks
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2006
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1 author
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chapter
2
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Explanation and Understanding
Annual Review of Psychology
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2005
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1 author
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review
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1,340
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The Development of Cynicism
Psychological Science
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2005
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2 authors
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118
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Should You Ask a Fisherman or a Biologist?: Developmental Shifts in Ways of Clustering Knowledge
Child Development
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2004
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2 authors
112
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Knowing the limits of one’s understanding: The development of an awareness of an illusion of explanatory depth
Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
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2003
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2 authors
187
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Folkscience: coarse interpretations of a complex reality
Trends in Cognitive Sciences
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2003
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1 author
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review
222
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That’s Life: Coming to Understand Biology
Human Development
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2003
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1 author
19
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The misunderstood limits of folk science: an illusion of explanatory depth
Cognitive Science
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2002
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2 authors
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1,024
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Early Understanding of the Division of Cognitive Labor
Child Development
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2002
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2 authors
325
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Thinking Through Language
Mind & Language
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2001
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2 authors
213
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The Acquisition of Japanese Numeral Classifiers: Linkage Between Grammatical Forms and Conceptual Categories
Journal of East Asian Linguistics
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2000
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2 authors
37
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The Origins of Developmental Psychology
Journal of Cognition and Development
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2000
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1 author
4
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Explanation and Cognition
The MIT Press eBooks
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2000
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2 authors
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book
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547
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The Shadows and Shallows of Explanation
The MIT Press eBooks
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2000
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2 authors
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52
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Explaining Explanation
The MIT Press eBooks
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2000
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2 authors
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chapter
16
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Mechanism and Explanation in the Development of Biological Thought: The Case of Disease
The MIT Press eBooks
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1999
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4 authors
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chapter
80
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Pictorial art and vision
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1999
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2 authors
19
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Explanatory Understanding in Conceptual Development
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1999
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1 author
11
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Do houseflies think? Patterns of induction and biological beliefs in development
Cognition
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1998
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2 authors
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Open access
79
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