Reasoning
This chapter examimes changes and developments in the study of reasoning. It discusses the recognition and acceptance of the notion that reasoning depends on constructing mental models of situations, from either perception or discourse. This idea started as a theory of deductive reasoning, but it now offers explanations of other sorts of reasoning. These include probabilistic reasoning, inductive reasoning, and the reasoning that underlies our ability to solve problems.
Keywords: reasoning, mental models, perception, deductive reasoning, probabilistic reasoning, inductive reasoning
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