Mental Logic

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By: Martin D. S. Braine (Editor), David P. O'Brien (Editor)

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Hardcover | 1 April 1998 | Edition Number 1

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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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List of Contributors	p. ii
Introduction: Some Background to The Mental-Logic Theory and to the Book	p. 1
Why It Took So Long To Bake the Mental-Logic Cake Historical Analysis of The Recipe and Its Ingredients	p. 7
Mental Logic and Irrationality We Can Put a Man on the Moon So Why Can't We Solve Those Logical Reasoning Problems?	p. 23
How to Investigate Mental Logic and the Syntax of Thought	p. 45
Summary and Conclusions	p. 60
Logical Inferences and Comprehension How Mental-Logic and Text-Processing Theories Need Each Other	p. 63
The Theory of Mental-Propositional Logic: Description and Illustration	p. 79
Evidence for the Theory: Predicting The Difficulty of Propositional Logic Inference Problems	p. 91
Introduction	p. 91
Summary	p. 137
Appendix: the Problems of Rating Study 2	p. 138
Acknowledgments	p. 144
Further Evidence for the Theory Predicting Intermediate and Multiple Conclusions in Propositional Logic Inference Problems	p. 145
Acknowledgments	p. 195
A Theory of If. a Lexical Entry Reasoning Program, And Pragmatic Principles	p. 199
Acknowledgments	p. 244
Conditional Reasoning The Logic of Supposition And Children's Understanding of Pretense	p. 245
Acknowledgments	p. 268
Appendix: Stories Presented in Experiment 6	p. 269
Steps Toward a Mental-Predicate Logic	p. 273
Some Empirical Justification of The Mental-Predicate-Logic Model	p. 333
Appendix 1The Test Problems with Monadic Predicates	p. 353
Appendix 2Test Problems with Dyadic Predicates	p. 359
Leveling the Playing Field Investigating Competing Claims Concerning Relative Inference Difficulty	p. 367
Acknowledgments	p. 382
Appendix A List of the English Materials with Cities and Letters Content	p. 383
A Case Study in the Mental-Models And Mental-Logic Debate: Conditional Syllogisms	p. 385
Acknowledgments	p. 420
A Dubious Premise Suppressibility of Modus Ponens	p. 421
What the Mental Logic-Mental Models Controversy is Not About	p. 435
Conclusion	p. 445
Pinocchio's Nose Knows Preschool Children Recognize That a Pragmatic Rule Can Be Violated, an Indicative Conditional Can Be Falsified, and That a Broken Promise is a False Promise	p. 447
References	p. 459
Author Index	p. 473
Subject Index	p. 479
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