Principles and Clusters in Human Syllogistic Reasoning
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چکیده
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 theories. We take this approach as starting point, yet instead of trying to model the human reasoner, we aim at identifying clusters of reasoners, which can be characterized by principles or by heuristic strategies.
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