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Original Articles

Relevance differently affects the truth, acceptability, and probability evaluations of “and”, “but”, “therefore”, and “if–then”

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Pages 449-482 | Received 24 Oct 2016, Accepted 27 Aug 2017, Published online: 22 Sep 2017

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