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Title

Mental logic / edited by Martin D.S. Braine and David P. O'Brien.

Publication

Mahwah, N.J. : L. Erlbaum Associates, 1998.

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Additional Authors

• Braine, Martin D. S.
• O'Brien, David P.

Description

vii, 481 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subjects

• Logic
• Reasoning

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 459-472) and indexes.

Contents

• 1. Introduction: Some Background to the Mental-Logic Theory and to the Book / David P. O'Brien -- 2. Why It Took so Long to Bake the Mental-Logic Cake: Historical Analysis of the Recipe and Its Ingredients / Luca Bonatti -- 3. Mental Logic and Irrationality: We Can Put a Man on the Moon So Why Can't We Solve Those Logical Reasoning Problems? / David P. O'Brien -- 4. How to Investigate Mental Logic and the Syntax of Thought / Martin D. S. Braine and David P. O'Brien -- 5. Logical Inferences and Comprehension: How Mental-Logic and Text Processing Theories Need Each Other / R. Brooke Lea -- 6. The Theory of Mental-Propositional Logic: Description and Illustration / Martin D. S. Braine and David P. O'Brien -- 7. Evidence for the Theory: Predicting the Difficulty of Propositional Logic Inference Problems / Martin D. S. Braine, Brian J. Reiser and Barbara Rumain --
• 8. Further Evidence for the Theory: Predicting Intermediate and Multiple Conclusions in Propositional Logic Inference Problems / Martin D. S. Braine, David P. O'Brien and Ira A. Noveck [et al.] -- 9. A Theory of If: A Lexical Entry, Reasoning Program, and Pragmatic Principles / Martin D. S. Braine and David P. O'Brien -- 10. Conditional Reasoning: The Logic of Supposition and Children's Understanding of Pretense / David P. O'Brien, Maria G. Dias and Antonio Roazzi [et al.] -- 11. Steps Toward a Mental-Predicate Logic / Martin D. S. Braine -- 12. Some Empirical Justification of the Mental-Predicate-Logic Model / Yingrui Yang, Martin D. S. Braine and David P. O'Brien -- 13. Leveling the Playing Field: Investigating Competing Claims Concerning Relative Inference Difficulty / Ira A. Noveck and Guy Politzer -- 14. A Case Study in the Mental Models and Mental-Logic Debate: Conditional Syllogisms / David P. O'Brien, Maria G. Dias and Antonio Roazzi --
• 15. A Dubious Premise: Suppressibility of Modus Ponens / David P. O'Brien, Maria G. Dias and Joseph R. Hosie -- 16. What the Mental Logic-Mental Models Controversy Is Not About / Luca Bonatti -- 17. Pinocchio's Nose Knows: Preschool Children Recognize That a Pragmatic Rule Can Be Violated, an Indicative Conditional Can Be Falsified, and That a Broken Promise is a False Promise / David P. O'Brien, Maria G. Dias and Antonio Roazzi [et al.].

ISBN

• 0805823883 (alk. paper)
• 0805823891 (alk. paper)

LCCN

97024744

OCLC

ocm37155259

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries