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The mesolimbic system and the loss of higher order network features in schizophrenia when learning without reward. [PDF]

open access: yesFront Psychiatry
Martin E   +12 more
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Epistemic modals and modus tollens

Philosophical Studies, 2016
Epistemic modals in consequent place of indicative conditionals give rise to apparent counterexamples to Modus Tollens. Familiar assumptions behind familiar truth conditional theories of embedded modality facilitate a prima facie explanation—viz., that the target cases harbor epistemic modal equivocations. However, this sort of explanation goes too far.
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Modus Tollens, Modus Shmollens: Contrapositive reasoning and the pragmatics of negation

Thinking & Reasoning, 2007
The utterance of a negative statement invites the pragmatic inference that some reason exists for the proposition it negates to be true; this pragmatic inference paves the way for the logically unexpected Modus Shmollens inference: “If p then q; not-q; therefore, p.” Experiment 1 shows that a majority of reasoners endorse Modus Shmollens from an ...
Jean-François Bonnefon   +1 more
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Analysis for correct reasoning by robots: modus ponens, modus tollens

Eighth Annual International Phoenix Conference on Computers and Communications. 1989 Conference Proceedings, 2003
Reasoning by a robot relates to commands it receives in the natural language in the form of incompletely stated arguments, i.e. enthymemes. An attempt is made by the robot to seek out missing premises or conclusions that will produce valid arguments on the basis of two inference rules, modus ponens and modus tollens.
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