Mental Logic PDF
Edited by Martin D.S. Braine, David P. O'Brien
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Over the past decade, the question of whether there is a mental logic has become subject to considerable debate.
There have been attacks by critics who believe that all reasoning uses mental models and return attacks on mental-models theory.
This controversy has invaded various journals and has created issues between mental logic and the biases-and-heuristics approach to reasoning, and the content-dependent theorists.
However, despite its pertinence to current issues in cognition, few cognitive scientists really know what the mental-logic theory is, and misapprehensions are prevalent.
This volume is a comprehensive presentation of the theory of mental logic and its implications for cognition and development, including the acquisition of language. The theory offered here has three parts. Part I is the mental logic per se that contains a set of inference schemas.
Part II is a reasoning program that applies the schemas in lines of reasoning, including a direct-reasoning routine and more sophisticated indirect-reasoning strategies.
Part III of the theory is pragmatic, proposing that the basic meaning of each logic particle is in the inferences that are sanctioned by its inference schemas.
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- Format:PDF
- Pages:496 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:01/04/1998
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- ISBN:9781135689179
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- Format:PDF
- Pages:496 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:01/04/1998
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- ISBN:9781135689179