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What happens when logic and psychology meet?

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Logic <strong>meet</strong>s <strong>psychology</strong> 2<br />

Marian Counihan<br />

<strong>What</strong> <strong>happens</strong> <strong>when</strong> <strong>logic</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>psychology</strong> <strong>meet</strong>?<br />

Two perspectives on the matter:<br />

- a psychologist’s: the role of <strong>logic</strong> in thinking<br />

cf. idea, from antiquity, that ‘man is the rational animal’<br />

- a philosopher’s: the role of thinking in <strong>logic</strong><br />

cf. origins of <strong>logic</strong> in analysing argument structure<br />

Universiteit van Amsterdam<br />

Core <strong>logic</strong> course

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