CONDITIONALS AND DISJUNCTIONS IN MENTAL-LOGIC THEORY: A RESPONSE TO LIU AND CHOU (2012) AND TO LÓPEZ ASTORGA (2013)

Liu and Chou (2012) presented a two-step theory to describe reasoning both on the four traditional conditional syllogisms and on four parallel syllogisms that replace the conditional with a disjunction. This article proposes that although Liu and Chou show that the words if and or play an important...

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Autor principal:	O'Brien,David P
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	Universidad de Talca. Instituto de Estudios Humanísticos 2014
Materias:	Mental logic reasoning modus ponens modus tollens conditional reasoning deductive reasoning disjunctions probabilistic reasoning
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spelling	oai:scielo:S0718-237620140002000152015-01-15CONDITIONALS AND DISJUNCTIONS IN MENTAL-LOGIC THEORY: A RESPONSE TO LIU AND CHOU (2012) AND TO LÓPEZ ASTORGA (2013)O'Brien,David P Mental logic reasoning modus ponens modus tollens conditional reasoning deductive reasoning disjunctions probabilistic reasoning Liu and Chou (2012) presented a two-step theory to describe reasoning both on the four traditional conditional syllogisms and on four parallel syllogisms that replace the conditional with a disjunction. This article proposes that although Liu and Chou show that the words if and or play an important role in generating the data they report, their theory provides no explanation of how these words play any role. The article also corrects an assertion by López Astorga (2013) that mental-logic theory accounts for the findings of Liu and Chou by interpreting if as the material conditional. Instead I show why mental-logic theory rejects the material conditional and accounts for the data using a procedural-semantics approach to the meaning of logic particles. The article concludes that a theory like that of Liu and Chou requires something like mental-logic theory to account for their data.info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessUniversidad de Talca. Instituto de Estudios HumanísticosUniversum (Talca) v.29 n.2 20142014-12-01text/htmlhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0718-23762014000200015en10.4067/S0718-23762014000200015
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description	Liu and Chou (2012) presented a two-step theory to describe reasoning both on the four traditional conditional syllogisms and on four parallel syllogisms that replace the conditional with a disjunction. This article proposes that although Liu and Chou show that the words if and or play an important role in generating the data they report, their theory provides no explanation of how these words play any role. The article also corrects an assertion by López Astorga (2013) that mental-logic theory accounts for the findings of Liu and Chou by interpreting if as the material conditional. Instead I show why mental-logic theory rejects the material conditional and accounts for the data using a procedural-semantics approach to the meaning of logic particles. The article concludes that a theory like that of Liu and Chou requires something like mental-logic theory to account for their data.
author	O'Brien,David P
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title	CONDITIONALS AND DISJUNCTIONS IN MENTAL-LOGIC THEORY: A RESPONSE TO LIU AND CHOU (2012) AND TO LÓPEZ ASTORGA (2013)
title_short	CONDITIONALS AND DISJUNCTIONS IN MENTAL-LOGIC THEORY: A RESPONSE TO LIU AND CHOU (2012) AND TO LÓPEZ ASTORGA (2013)
title_full	CONDITIONALS AND DISJUNCTIONS IN MENTAL-LOGIC THEORY: A RESPONSE TO LIU AND CHOU (2012) AND TO LÓPEZ ASTORGA (2013)
title_fullStr	CONDITIONALS AND DISJUNCTIONS IN MENTAL-LOGIC THEORY: A RESPONSE TO LIU AND CHOU (2012) AND TO LÓPEZ ASTORGA (2013)
title_full_unstemmed	CONDITIONALS AND DISJUNCTIONS IN MENTAL-LOGIC THEORY: A RESPONSE TO LIU AND CHOU (2012) AND TO LÓPEZ ASTORGA (2013)
title_sort	conditionals and disjunctions in mental-logic theory: a response to liu and chou (2012) and to lópez astorga (2013)
publisher	Universidad de Talca. Instituto de Estudios Humanísticos
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