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Formal inferences and their relationships to knowledge acquisition: mental models and semantic links [PDF]
Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology, 2020 The mental model theory is an approach with clear psychological, linguistic, and cognitive consequences. This paper delves into some of the epistemological conclusions that can be drawn from it.
Miguel López Astorga +1 more
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Progressive Confirmation of Two Mental Systems [PDF]
ProblemosFrom current cognitive science, some theories propose that the human mind includes two systems: a system leading quick intuitions and a system ruling slow logical reasoning. Given that the systems are in the mind, one might think that their existence is
Miguel López Astorga
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Posibilidad Lógico-epistemológica del Modus Tollendo Tollens en la Investigación en las Ciencias de la Educación [PDF]
Itinerario Educativo, 2013 <p>La propuesta de Karl Raimund Popper (1902-1994), para establecer una solución al problema de la inducción en ciencia a través de la falsación (uso del <em>Modus Tollendo Tollens</em>), presenta una serie de inconvenientes metodológicos, epistemológicos y algunos hist&
Luis Francisco Ochoa, Astrid Bastidas
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Belief revision and uncertain reasoning [PDF]
, 2001 When a new piece of information contradicts a currently held belief, one has to modify the set of beliefs in order to restore its consistency. In the case where it is necessary to give up a belief, some of them are less likely to be abandoned than others.
Carles, Laure, Politzer, Guy
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, 2017 An analogy is made between two rather different domains, namely: logic, and football. Starting from a comparative table between the two activities, an alternative explanation of logic is given in terms of players, ball, goal, and the like.
Schang, Fabien
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The First Rule of Stoic Logic and its Relationship with the Indemonstrables [PDF]
, 2015 In addition to the indemonstrables, Stoic logic included a number of reduction rules. In this paper, I analyze the rst one of such rules in order to prove whether it was formally derived from the indemonstrables or the Stoics could raise it from the use ...
Astorga, Miguel López
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Los estudiantes de ciencias, ¿pueden reconocer los argumentos lógicos involucrados en una demostración? [PDF]
, 2014 En toda demostración matemática, se utilizan argumentos lógicos correctos; saber reconocerlos y aplicarlos es una condición necesaria para comprender algunos de los pasos clave en las demostraciones.
Camacho Moreno, Vladímir +2 more
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Rationality and the experimental study of reasoning [PDF]
, 2004 A survey of the results obtained during the past three decades in some of the most widely used tasks and paradigms in the experimental study of reasoning is presented. It is shown that, at first sight, human performance suffers from serious shortcomings.
A. Tversky +34 more
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Counterfactual Truths: The Logical Structure of Argumentative Thought Experiments [PDF]
, 2015 Argumentative thought experiments are structurally conditional clauses. They can hence be formalized by means of the principle of modus ponendo ponens, as well as of modus tollendo tollens.
Álvarez-Vázquez, Javier Y.
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A 4-valued logic of strong conditional [PDF]
, 2018 How to say no less, no more about conditional than what is needed? From a logical analysis of necessary and sufficient conditions (Section 1), we argue that a stronger account of conditional can be obtained in two steps: firstly, by reminding its ...
Schang, Fabien
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