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What do children really believe?

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Previous research indicates that children will use either empirical or deductive methods to justify propositions which they consider to be true. The research reported here was designed to discover what type of evidence children find to be convincing: what it is that secures genuine belief.

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Porteous, K. What do children really believe?. Educ Stud Math 21, 589–598 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00315946

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