Temporal and spatial relations in sentential reasoning
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Temporal and spatial relations in sentential reasoning.
The mental model theory postulates that the meanings of assertions, and knowledge about their context can modulate the logical meaning of sentential connectives, such as "if" and "or". One known effect of modulation is to block the representation of possibilities to which a proposition refers. But, modulation should also add relational information, such as temporal order, to models of possibili...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Cognition
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0010-0277
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2011.11.007