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This study examined the claim (Hawkins, Pea, Glick, & Scribner, 1984) that young children can reason deductively with content for which «practical knowledge is irrelevant». Ss 6, 8, and 11 years of age were given a set of standard logical syllogisms and a matching set of illogical ones
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Markovits et al. (1989) studied this question.
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