RT Conference_Proceedings
T1 Pragmatic factors in conditional reasoning with narrative texts
A1 Valiña García, María Dolores
A1 Seoane Pesqueira, Gloria
A1 Ferraces Otero, María José
A1 Martín Rajo, Montserrat
K1 Psychology
K1 Cognitive Psychology
K1 Thinking
K1 Psychology of Thinking
K1 Reasoning
K1 Psychology of Reasoning
K1 Conditional Reasoning
K1 Mental Models
AB In this study the role of pragmatic knowledge in conditional reasoning was investigated (Cheng & Holyoak, 1985; Holyoak & Cheng, 1995). We tried to precisely determine the importance of the variable which we refer to as “the probability of empirical frequency" (Valiña & cols. 1992a, b; Valiña & cols. 1996a, b) This refers to the frequency with which the expressed relation between the antecedent and the consequent in conditional sentences occurs in the real world. If, as is proposed by the Theory of Mental Models (Johnson-Laird, 1983; Johnson-Laird & Byrne, 1991), people elaborate representations of the real world, it would be expected that reasoning with conditional sentences in which "empirical possibilities" are expressed will be different from the reasoning involved with statements which imply "empirical neccessities" (Byrne & Johnson-Laird, 1992). The results are not consistent with theories based on formal rules of inference.
YR 1997
FD 1997
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10347/13509
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10347/13509
LA eng
NO This work was presented at Nineteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, celebrated in Stanford University, California, August, 7-10, 1997
DS Minerva
RD 24 abr 2026