{"product_id":"mental-logic-martin-d-s-braine-9781138012424","title":"Mental Logic","description":"Over the past decade, the question of whether there is a mental logic has become subject to considerable debate. There have been attacks by critics who believe that all reasoning uses mental models and return attacks on mental-models theory. This controversy has invaded various journals and has created issues between mental logic and the biases-and-heuristics approach to reasoning, and the content-dependent theorists. However, despite its pertinence to current issues in cognition, few cognitive scientists really know what the mental-logic theory is, and misapprehensions are prevalent. This volume is a comprehensive presentation of the theory of mental logic and its implications for cognition and development, including the acquisition of language. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The theory offered here has three parts. Part I is the mental logic \u003ci\u003eper se\u003c\/i\u003e that contains a set of inference schemas. Part II is a reasoning program that applies the schemas in lines of reasoning, including a direct-reasoning routine and more sophisticated indirect-reasoning strategies. Part III of the theory is pragmatic, proposing that the basic meaning of each logic particle is in the inferences that are sanctioned by its inference schemas.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Martin D. S. Braine\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1138012424\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781138012424\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Psychology Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/01\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 496\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.30w x 1.10d","brand":"Martin D. S. Braine","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46232989925631,"sku":"9781138012424","price":69.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_503e2437-17af-4812-8b75-dd497fa5ff83.jpg?v=1728991741","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/mental-logic-martin-d-s-braine-9781138012424","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}