scholarly journals Mental Logic: Two Poems

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 553-556
Author(s):  
Ashley Delvento
Keyword(s):  
Mental Logic

Mental Logic Versus Mental Models

1992 ◽  
Vol 37 (5) ◽  
pp. 438-439
Author(s):  
Richard A. Griggs
Keyword(s):  
Mental Models ◽  
Mental Logic

Human reasoning includes a mental logic

2009 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 96-97 ◽  
Author(s):  
David P. O'Brien
Keyword(s):  
Probability Theory ◽  
Human Reasoning ◽  
Completeness Problem ◽  
Mental Logic

AbstractOaksford & Chater (O&C) have rejected logic in favor of probability theory for reasons that are irrelevant to mental-logic theory, because mental-logic theory differs from standard logic in significant ways. Similar to O&C, mental-logic theory rejects the use of the material conditional and deals with the completeness problem by limiting the scope of its procedures to local sets of propositions.

Predicting intermediate and multiple conclusions in propositional logic inference problems: Further evidence for a mental logic.

1995 ◽  
Vol 124 (3) ◽  
pp. 263-292 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin D. S. Braine ◽  
David P. O'Brien ◽  
Ira A. Noveck ◽  
Mark C. Samuels ◽  
R. Brooke Lea ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Propositional Logic ◽  
Inference Problems ◽  
Logic Inference ◽  
Mental Logic

Graphical Logic Paradigm and Reasoning Process Research

2014 ◽  
Vol 1006-1007 ◽  
pp. 1084-1091 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ren Long ◽  
Yi Ting Zhang ◽  
Yu Hui Wang
Keyword(s):  
Mental Models ◽  
Process Research ◽  
Problem Difficulty ◽  
Reasoning Process ◽  
Reasoning Test ◽  
High Degree ◽  
Mental Logic

Through the mental models, mental logic and raven's graphic reasoning test research, this paper deduced a series of graphic reasoning paradigm, and summarized the process of graphical reasoning. Through the demonstration of problem difficulty experiment and written report experiment, confirmed a high relevance between the graphic logic steps iteration and species and questions difficulty. Furthermore, reasoning order and default graphical reasoning paradigm have a high degree of agreement. Confirmed the rationality and widespread adaptability of graphic reasoning paradigms.

Mental-Logic Theory

2003 ◽  
pp. 205-233
Author(s):  
David P. O'Brien
Keyword(s):  
Mental Logic

Ninth Bartlett Memorial Lecture. Thinking as a Skill

1982 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. N. Johnson-Laird
Keyword(s):  
Mental Models ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Syllogistic Reasoning ◽  
Memorial Lecture ◽  
States Of Affairs ◽  
Alternative Models ◽  
High Level ◽  
Mental Logic

There are two conflicting views about the nature of thought: it is invariably rational or invariably irrational. Bartlett argued that thinking is a high level skill, and this idea suggests an obvious third possibility: thought is sometimes rational and sometimes irrational. This view is defended in the present paper, which argues that the doctrine of logical infallibility is either falsified by the results of some experiments on syllogistic reasoning or else empirically vacuous. There is no need to postulate a mental logic of the sort that Piaget and others have proposed. The rapid implicit inferences of daily life depend on the ability to interpret sentences by constructing mental models of the states of affairs that they describe. Deliberate deductions depend on the further ability to search for alternative models that violate putative conclusions. All that you need to know to assess validity is the fundamental semantic principle of deduction: an inference is valid if, and only if, its conclusion is true in every situation in which its premises are true and there is no way of interpreting the premises so as to render the conclusion false. This principle guides the construction of all logics though it is not explicitly stated in any of them. The paper concludes by examining the ways in which people differ in their ability to reason, the practical need to improve this ability, and some of the pedagogical implications of the present studies.

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