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Noordman, Leo G.M. 1978. Foreground and background information in reasoning. In Campbell, Robin N. and Philip T. Smith, eds. Recent advances in the psychology of language. Plenum Press. pp. 289–303.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

background information | explicitness | given vs. new information | presupposition | reasoning

Annotation

On the role of new and old information and explicitly communicated and presupposed information or foreground and background information in simple reasoning tasks.