This reflective paper attempts to explore how clinicians working in an increasingly complex, data-driven world of healthcare provision, interpret, analyse, assimilate, and disseminate commonly encountered numerical data. It is suggested that on occasion during this process, unintentional errors clinical reasoning critical thinking may occur. The main theme explored we as neuropsychologists, par...

Levesque introduced a notion of “only knowing”, with the goal of capturing certain types of nonmonotonic reasoning. Levesque’s logic dealt with only the case of a single agent. Recently, both Halpern and Lakemeyer independently attempted to extend Levesque’s logic to the multi-agent case. Although there are a number of similarities in their approaches, there are some significant differences. In...

FALL 1999 T TITLE of this article is also the title of a remarkable new book written by Liping Ma. The basic format of the book is simple. Each of the first four chapters opens with a standard topic in elementary school mathematics, presented as a part of a situation that would arise naturally in a classroom. These scenarios are followed by extensive discussion by teachers regarding how they wo...

Understanding diagrams and using them in problem solving requires extensive knowledge about the properties of diagrams, what diagram elements denote, how their parts are distinguished and referenced, how they relate to linguistic statements, and so forth. This knowledge is most naturally represented linguistically. Nonetheless, diagrams or imaginal representations of them are used in substantiv...