What happens when logic and psychology meet?

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Logic meets psychology 10 Marian Counihan What’s going on? Standard argument: People are sensitive to content as well as form. Logical inference is based solely on form. People are not reasoning according to logic. Universiteit van Amsterdam Core logic course
Logic meets psychology 11 Marian Counihan What’s really going on? Hidden equivocations in the standard argument: • Grammatical form = logical form • Natural language connectives = classical logic connectives • Interpretative process in natural language is fixed, as it is in logic These are assumptions we are not entitled to make! We should not assume natural language sentences can be translated into propositional or predicate logic without losing any of their ‘logical’ properties. Universiteit van Amsterdam Core logic course
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