False-Belief Tasks Assess the Extent to Which Children Understand That

question 27

True/False

False-belief tasks assess the extent to which children understand that someone else can
believe something that is not true.

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Definitions:

Tautology

A statement that is necessarily true because of the meanings of the words.

Truth Table

A mathematical table used in logic to determine whether a compound statement is true or false, based on the truth values of its components.

Contingent Statement

In the Logic of Statements means a grammatically correct expression that turns out to be true under at least one possible assignment of truth values to its component simple statements and false under another possible assignment of truth values to its component simple statements.

Truth Values

The attribution of truth or falsity to propositions or statements, which in classical logic are typically denoted as true or false.