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Putting reasons back into reasoning: how genuine reasoning is inference-based and why neuro-symbolic NLI could achieve it [PDF]
Frontiers in Artificial IntelligenceTaking Leibniz' ideal of a universal truth-calculating machine as a vantage point, this article provides a philosophically sound analysis of the concept of reasoning in NLP. It argues that reasoning always involves inference, which in turn requires being
Reto Gubelmann
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Commentary: The Predictive Processing Paradigm Has Roots in Kant [PDF]
Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 2018 Majid D. Beni
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Crítica, 2021 This paper argues for an integrated inferential conception about theories and representations and its role in accounting for the theoretical value of philosophically disregarded representational practices, such as the systematic use of phase space ...
Javier Anta
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Inferential Expectations [PDF]
The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics, 2005 We propose that the formation of beliefs be treated as statistical hypothesis tests, and label such beliefs inferential expectations. If a belief is overturned through the build-up of evidence, we assume agents switch to the rational expectation. Thus, if the test size is unity, agents hold rational expectations.
Menzies, Gordon Douglas +1 more
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Philosophical Review, 2023 Deflationists about truth hold that the function of the truth predicate is to enable us to make certain assertions we could not otherwise make. Pragmatists claim that the utility of negation lies in its role in registering incompatibility. The pragmatist insight about negation has been successfully incorporated into bilateral theories of content, which
Incurvati, L., Schlöder, J.J.
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Conditionals and inferential connections: A hypothetical inferential theory [PDF]
Cognitive Psychology, 2018 Intuition suggests that for a conditional to be evaluated as true, there must be some kind of connection between its component clauses. In this paper, we formulate and test a new psychological theory to account for this intuition. We combined previous semantic and psychological theorizing to propose that the key to the intuition is a relevance-driven ...
Igor Douven +3 more
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Talking with tradition: On Brandom’s historical rationality
Open Philosophy, 2020 Robert Brandom’s notion of historical rationality seeks to supplement his inferentialism thesis by providing an account for the validity of conceptual contents.
Gazit Yael
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Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 2017 This paper provides a naturalistic account of inference. We posit that the core of inference is constituted by bare inferential transitions (BITs), transitions between discursive mental representations guided by rules built into the architecture of cognitive systems.
Quilty-Dunn, J, Mandelbaum, E
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Inferentialism and Relevance: The case of Connexivity
Análisis Filosófico, 2021 This paper provides an inferentialist motivation for a logic belonging in the connexive family, by borrowing elements from the bilateralist interpretation for Classical Logic without the Cut rule, proposed by David Ripley.
Damián Szmuc
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Hegelian Influence on Inferentialism, Plausibility and Limitations [PDF]
Journal of Philosophical InvestigationsThe aim of this paper is to examine both the potential and limitations of Hegelianism in contemporary epistemology. To achieve this, the paper first explores Robert Brandom's interpretation of Phenomenology of Spirit in his 2019 work, Spirit of Trust. In
Nalliely Hernández Cornejo +1 more
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