Author: Jasminka GrgasPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Logic
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Predicting Intermediate and Multiple Conclusions on Predicate-logic Reasoning Problems
Author: Jasminka GrgasThe Nature of Reasoning
Author: Jacqueline P. LeightonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521009287
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
We are bombarded with information - press releases, television news, Internet websites, and office memos, just to name a few - on a daily basis. However, the important conclusions that may or need to be inferred from such information are typically not provided. We must draw the conclusions by ourselves. How do we draw these conclusions? This book addresses how we reason to reach sensible conclusions. The purpose of this book is to organize in one volume what is known about reasoning, such as its structural prerequisites, its mechanisms, its susceptibility to pragmatic influences, its pitfalls, and the bases for its development. Given that reasoning underlies so many of our intellectual activities - when we learn, criticize, analyze, judge, infer, evaluate, optimize, apply, discover, imagine, devise, and create - we stand to gain a great deal if we can learn to define, operate, apply, and nurture our reasoning.
Mental Logic
Author: Martin D.S. BrainePublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 1135689172
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
This volume, which includes some previously published work and the most recent writings of the late Martin Braine and his colleagues, will be of interest to cognitive scientists, philosophers of mind and logicians, developmentalists, and psycholinguists.
Cognition and Conditionals
Author: Mike OaksfordPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199233292
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
The conditional, if...then, is probably the most important term in natural language and forms the core of systems of logic and mental representation. Cognition and Conditionals is the first volume for over 20 years that brings together recent developments in the cognitive science and psychology of conditional reasoning.
Experimental Pragmatics
Author: Ira NoveckPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108639461
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
How does a listener understand a sarcastic 'That was a wonderful speech' when the words point to a positive review? Why do students of introductory logic interpret 'Some cabs are yellow' as 'Not all cabs are yellow' when the meaning of 'some' is compatible with 'all'? Pragmatics aims to explain how listeners draw out a speaker's meaning from utterances, an astonishing feat when one considers that the words in a sentence hardly suffice for fully comprehending what the speaker intended. Given the nature of pragmatics, it is going to take the interdisciplinary firepower of many cognitive sciences - including philosophy, experimental psychology, linguistics and neuroscience - to fully appreciate this uniquely human ability. In this book, Ira Noveck, a leading pioneer in experimental pragmatics, engagingly walks the reader through the phenomena, the theoretical debates, the experiments as well as the historical development of this growing academic discipline.
A Concise Introduction to Logic
Author: Craig DeLanceyPublisher: Open SUNY Textbooks
ISBN: 9781942341437
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Natural Language Processing and Chinese Computing
Author: Fei LiuPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031446933
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 897
Book Description
This three-volume set constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th National CCF Conference on Natural Language Processing and Chinese Computing, NLPCC 2023, held in Foshan, China, during October 12–15, 2023. The 143 regular papers included in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 478 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: dialogue systems; fundamentals of NLP; information extraction and knowledge graph; machine learning for NLP; machine translation and multilinguality; multimodality and explainability; NLP applications and text mining; question answering; large language models; summarization and generation; student workshop; and evaluation workshop.
Mental Logic
Author: Martin D.S. BrainePublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 1135689164
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 521
Book Description
Over the past decade, the question of whether there is a mental logic has become subject to considerable debate. There have been attacks by critics who believe that all reasoning uses mental models and return attacks on mental-models theory. This controversy has invaded various journals and has created issues between mental logic and the biases-and-heuristics approach to reasoning, and the content-dependent theorists. However, despite its pertinence to current issues in cognition, few cognitive scientists really know what the mental-logic theory is, and misapprehensions are prevalent. This volume is a comprehensive presentation of the theory of mental logic and its implications for cognition and development, including the acquisition of language. The theory offered here has three parts. Part I is the mental logic per se that contains a set of inference schemas. Part II is a reasoning program that applies the schemas in lines of reasoning, including a direct-reasoning routine and more sophisticated indirect-reasoning strategies. Part III of the theory is pragmatic, proposing that the basic meaning of each logic particle is in the inferences that are sanctioned by its inference schemas.
Dissertation Abstracts International
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 676
Book Description
Logical Reasoning
Author: Bradley Harris DowdenPublisher: Bradley Dowden
ISBN: 9780534176884
Category : Critical thinking
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
This book is designed to engage students' interest and promote their writing abilities while teaching them to think critically and creatively. Dowden takes an activist stance on critical thinking, asking students to create and revise arguments rather than simply recognizing and criticizing them. His book emphasizes inductive reasoning and the analysis of individual claims in the beginning, leaving deductive arguments for consideration later in the course.