Mental Logic - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0805823883 ISBN 13 : 9780805823882

Editeur : Psychology Press, 1998

Synopsis

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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Martin D.S. Braine (Edited by), David P. O'Brien (Edited by)

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Psychology Press
• Date d'édition: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0805823883
• ISBN 13: 9780805823882
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 490
• Éditeur: Braine Martin D.S., O'Brien David P.
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