| Description |
1 online resource (490 pages) |
| Contents |
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; 1 Introduction: Some Background to the Mental-Logic Theory and to the Book; 2 Why It Took So Long to Bake the Mental-Logic Cake: Historical Analysis of the Recipe and Its Ingredients; 3 Mental Logic and Irrationality: We Can Put a Man on the Moon, So Why Can't We Solve Those Logical Reasoning Problems?; 4 How to Investigate Mental Logic and the Syntax of Though; 5 Logical Inferences and Comprehension: How Mental-Logic and Text-Processing Theories Need Each Other; 6 The Theory of Mental-Propositional Logic: Description and Illustration |
|
7 Evidence for the Theory: Predicting the Difficulty of Propositional Logic Inference Problems8 Further Evidence for the Theory: Predicting Intermediate and Multiple Conclusions in Propositional Logic Inference Problems; 9 A Theory of If: A Lexical Entry, Reasoning Program, and Pragmatic Principles; 10 Conditional Reasoning: The Logic of Supposition and Children's Understanding of Pretense; 11 Steps Toward a Mental-Predicate |
| Summary |
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 controve |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Logic.
|
|
Reasoning.
|
|
Logic
|
|
Reasoning
|
| Form |
Electronic book
|
| Author |
O'Brien, David P
|
| ISBN |
9781410603005 |
|
1410603008 |
|
