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Epistemology for Beginners: Two- to Five-Year-Old Children's Representation of Falsity.

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http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4618725?pdf=render
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This paper investigates the ontogeny of human's naive concept of truth. Surprisingly, children find it hard to treat assertions as false before their fifth birthday. Yet, we show in six studies (N = 140) that human's concept of falsity develops early. Two-

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