Reasoning with conditionals |
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Authors: | Guy Politzer |
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Institution: | (1) CNRS, Institut Jean-Nicod, 1 bis, avenue de Lowendal, 75005 Paris, France |
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Abstract: | This paper reviews the psychological investigation of reasoning with conditionals, putting an emphasis on recent work. In
the first part, a few methodological remarks are presented. In the second part, the main theories of deductive reasoning (mental
rules, mental models, and the probabilistic approach) are considered in turn; their content is summarised and the semantics
they assume for if and the way they explain formal conditional reasoning are discussed, in particular in the light of experimental work on the
probability of conditionals. The last part presents the recent shift of interest towards the study of conditional reasoning
in context, that is, with large knowledge bases and uncertain premises. |
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Keywords: | Human reasoning Conditional Deduction Natural logic Mental models Mental rules Defeasible reasoning Probabilistic reasoning |
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