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Epistemology for Beginners: Two- to Five-Year-Old Children's Representation of Falsity

This paper investigates the ontogeny of human’s naive concept of truth. Surprisingly, children find it hard to treat assertions as false before their fifth birthday. Yet, we show in six studies (N = 140) that human’s concept of falsity develops early. Two-year-olds use truth-functional negation to e...

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Autores principales: Mascaro, Olivier, Morin, Olivier
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4618725/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26484675
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0140658