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Rule systems are not dead: Existential quantifiers are harder

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Richard E. Grandy
Richard E. Grandy
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Cognitive Sciences Program, Rice University, Houston, TX 77251 Electronic mail: grandy-a@ricevm1.rice.edu
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 16 , Issue 2 , June 1993 , pp. 351 - 352
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