The role of answer fluency and perceptual fluency in the monitoring and control of reasoning: Reply to Alter, Oppenheimer, and Epley [PDF]
In this reply, we provide an analysis of Alter et al. (2013) response to our earlier paper (Thompson et al., 2013). In that paper, we reported difficulty in replicating Alter, Oppenheimer, Epley, and Eyre’s (2007) main finding, namely that a sense of ...
Ackerman, Rakefet +5 more
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COMPLEX CHARACTER OF LOGIC IN LEGAL METHODOLOGY
Problem setting. In the modern methodology, the issues related to the impossibility of fulfilling the general scientific logical requirements of completeness and consistency are actualized: "whitish spots" testify to the inability to achieve the ideal of
Олена Миколаївна Юркевич
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Avicennian logicians on the conversion of categorical propositions to conditional ones [PDF]
In another article, I have shown that Avicenna regards categorical propositions as “different” and “not identical,” yet “equivalent” to conditional propositions.
Asadollah Fallahi
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Reasoning deficits among illicit drug users are associated with aspects of cannabis use [PDF]
Background. Deficits in deductive reasoning have been observed among ecstasy/polydrug users. The present study seeks to investigate dose-related effects of specific drugs and whether these vary with the cognitive demands of the task. Methods. One hundred
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Conditionals, Modals, and Hypothetical Syllogism
Moti Mizrahi (2013) presents some novel counterexamples to Hypothetical Syllogism (HS) for indicative conditionals. I show that they are not compelling as they neglect the complicated ways in which conditionals and modals interact. I then briefly outline why HS should nevertheless be rejected.
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Does Suppositional Reasoning Solve the Bootstrapping Problem? [PDF]
In a 2002 article Stewart Cohen advances the “bootstrapping problem” for what he calls “basic justification theories,” and in a 2010 followup he offers a solution to the problem, exploiting the idea that suppositional reasoning may be used with ...
Van Cleve, James
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Causality and Coextensiveness in Aristotle's Posterior Analytics 1.13 [PDF]
I discuss an important feature of the notion of cause in Post. An. 1. 13, 78b13–28, which has been either neglected or misunderstood. Some have treated it as if Aristotle were introducing a false principle about explanation; others have understood the ...
Angioni, Lucas
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City Slicker or Country Bumpkin?—Distinguishing Urban and Rural Residents From Subtle Facial Cues
ABSTRACT Stereotypes characterize urban and rural residents as differing in traits, values and social outcomes. Here, we examined how people's stereotypes about urban and rural residents differ, testing their validity using a lens model. Results showed that participants detected whether people resided in urban or rural areas from photos across three ...
McLean G. Morgan +2 more
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In Defense of Brogaard-Salerno Stricture [PDF]
Brogaard and Salerno (2008) argued that counter-examples to contraposition, strengthening the antecedent, and hypothetical syllogism involving subjunctive conditionals only seem to work because they involve a contextual fallacy where the context assumed ...
Silva, Matheus
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Reasoning of non- and pre-linguistic creatures: How much do the experiments tell us? [PDF]
If a conclusion was reached that creatures without a language capability exhibit some form of a capability for logic, this would shed a new light on the relationship between logic, language, and thought.
Sreckovic, Sanja
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