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A Little Logic Goes a Long Way: Basing Experiment on Semantic Theory in the Cognitive Science of Conditional Reasoning
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Stenning, Keith; van Lambalgen, Michiel – Cognitive Science, 2004
Modern logic provides accounts of both interpretation and derivation which work together to provide abstract frameworks for modelling the sensitivity of human reasoning to task, context and content. Cognitive theories have underplayed the importance of interpretative processes. We illustrate, using Wason's [Q. J. Exp. Psychol. 20 (1968) 273]…
Descriptors: Logical Thinking, Semantics, Epistemology, Cognitive Processes