Mental Logic

Mental Logic
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Publisher : Psychology Press
Total Pages : 521
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ISBN-10 : 9781135689162
ISBN-13 : 1135689164
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Book Synopsis Mental Logic by : Martin D.S. Braine

Download or read book Mental Logic written by Martin D.S. Braine and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1998-04-01 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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