If Neuroscience is to contribute to Economics, it will do so by the way of Psychology. Neural data can and do lead to better psychological theories, and psychological insights can and do lead to better economic models. Hence, Neuroscience can in principle contribute to Economics. Whether it actually will do so is an empirical question and the jury is still out. Economics currently faces theoret...

The well-founded model for any general deductive database computed using the paraconsistent relational model, based on four-valued logic, does not support inference rules such as disjunctive syllogism. In order to support disjunctive syllogism, we utilize the generalization of the relational model to quasi-classic (QC) logic, whose inference power is much closer to classical logic. As the parac...

The diagrammatic representation by "square-and-strips" used to illustrate and solve problems linked to conditional probability distributions is reinterpreted exclusively in terms of liquids in water tanks and applied to a new domain, namely deductive inferences under uncertainty. The isomorphism between the physical constraints on the capacity of the tank and its subdivisions and elementary law...

N.B.: For the references, please see Selected Bibliography on Aristotle's Theory of Categorical Syllogism "When modem logicians in the 1920s and 1930s first turned their attention to the problem of understanding Aristotle’s contribution to logic in modern terms, they were guided both by the Frege-Russell conception of logic as formal ontology and at the same time by a desire to protect Aristotl...

This paper presents a new approach to show the validity of the chaining syllogism for fuzzy IF-THEN rules and rule bases. Based on this approach new conditions are given on which the deduction scheme holds.

Syllogism reasoning is a common and important form of in human thinking from Aristotle onwards. To overcome the shortcomings previous studies, this article makes full use set theory classical propositional logic, deduces remaining 23 valid syllogisms only on basis syllogism EIO-2 perspective mathematical structuralism, then successfully establishes concise formal axiom system for categorical sy...

Logical inference is often seen as an exclusively human and language-dependent ability, but several nonhuman animal species search in a manner that is consistent with a deductive inference, the disjunctive syllogism: when a reward is hidden in one of two cups, and one cup is shown to be empty, they will search for the reward in the other cup. In Experiment 1, we extended these results to toddle...