Modeling Human Syllogistic Reasoning: The Role of “No Valid Conclusion”

Modeling human syllogistic reasoning in Soar

Some arguments are probably valid: Syllogistic reasoning as communication

Syllogistic reasoning lies at the intriguing intersection of natural and formal reasoning, of language and logic. Syllogisms comprise a formal system of reasoning yet use natural language quantifiers, and invite natural language conclusions. How can we make sense of the interplay between logic and language? We develop a computational-level theory that considers reasoning over concrete situation...

Principles and Clusters in Human Syllogistic Reasoning

It seems widely accepted that human reasoning cannot be modeled by means of Classical Logic. Psychological experiments have repeatedly shown that participants’ answers systematically deviate from the classical logically correct answers. Recently a new approach on modeling human syllogistic reasoning has been developed which seems to perform the best compared to other state-of-the-art cognitive ...

Development of syllogistic reasoning.

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Extending Syllogistic Reasoning

In this paper syllogistic logic is extended first to full propositional logic, and then an interesting fragment of predicate logic that