Exorcising Grice's ghost: an empirical approach to studying intentional communication in animals

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• Publication year

  2017

• Venue

  Biological Reviews of The Cambridge Philosophical Society

• Publication date

  2017-07-05

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1111/brv.12289PMID 27480784
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