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Causal Reasoning and Meno’s Paradox [PDF]

AI & SOCIETY, 2020
AbstractCausal reasoning is an aspect of learning, reasoning, and decision-making that involves the cognitive ability to discover relationships between causal relata, learn and understand these causal relationships, and make use of this causal knowledge in prediction, explanation, decision-making, and reasoning in terms of counterfactuals. Can we fully
Melvin Chen, Lock Yue Chew
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Causal Reasoning in Rats

Science, 2006
Empirical research with nonhuman primates appears to support the view that causal reasoning is a key cognitive faculty that divides humans from animals. The claim is that animals approximate causal learning using associative processes. The present results cast doubt on that conclusion.
Blaisdell, Aaron P., Sawa, K., Leising, Kenneth J., Waldmann, M. R.   +3 more
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Exploring Defeasibility in Causal Reasoning [PDF]

Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics ACL 2024
Defeasibility in causal reasoning implies that the causal relationship between cause and effect can be strengthened or weakened. Namely, the causal strength between cause and effect should increase or decrease with the incorporation of strengthening arguments (supporters) or weakening arguments (defeaters), respectively.
Cui, Shaobo, Milikic, Lazar, Feng, Yiyang, Ismayilzada, Mahammad, Paul, Debjit, Bosselut, Antoine, Faltings, Boi   +6 more
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Causal Reasoning

, 2017
Although causal reasoning is a component of most human cognitive functions, it has been neglected in cognitive psychology for many decades. To date, textbooks on cognitive psychology do not contain chapters on causal reasoning. The goal of this Handbook is to fill this gap, and to offer state-of-the-art reviews of the field.
Michael R. Waldmann
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Legal Causal Reasoning. Cause-effect Analysis using a Neutrosophic Environment [PDF]

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems, 2021
Causal reasoning is implicit in all areas of human life, which is why it is strongly applied within the legal framework. This is valid in both criminal and civil proceedings.
José Rodolfo Calle Santander, Rously Atencio González, Alipio Cadena Posso, Wilson René Paredes Navarrete   +3 more
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Modelling causal reasoning [PDF]

, 2008
PhDAlthough human causal reasoning is widely acknowledged as an object of scientific enquiry, there is little consensus on an appropriate measure of progress.
Brandano, Sergio, Sergio Brandano
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Beyond balance: propensity scores and causal reasoning [PDF]

Korean Journal of Anesthesiology
Eunjin Ahn
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Causal Models and Conditional Reasoning

, 2017
Book synopsis: Causal reasoning is one of our most central cognitive competencies, enabling us to adapt to our world. Causal knowledge allows us to predict future events, or diagnose the causes of observed facts.
Nick Chater, Chater, N., Mike Oaksford, Oaksford, Mike, Oaksford, Michael   +4 more
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Causal theory error in college students’ understanding of science studies

Cognitive Research, 2022
When reasoning about science studies, people often make causal theory errors by inferring or accepting a causal claim based on correlational evidence.
Colleen M. Seifert, Michael Harrington, Audrey L. Michal, Priti Shah   +3 more
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Causal reasoning in understanding Newton’s third law

Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2021
Causal reasoning is a fundamental cognitive process that supports a wide range of learning activities such as making predictions and inferences, explaining phenomena, and drawing conclusions.
Cheng Chen, Lei Bao, Joseph C. Fritchman, Hemin Ma   +3 more
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