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SUBMITTER: Evans JS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4389288 | biostudies-literature | 2015
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Evans Jonathan St B T JS Thompson Valerie A VA Over David E DE
Frontiers in psychology 20150408
There has been a paradigm shift in the psychology of deductive reasoning. Many researchers no longer think it is appropriate to ask people to assume premises and decide what necessarily follows, with the results evaluated by binary extensional logic. Most every day and scientific inference is made from more or less confidently held beliefs and not assumptions, and the relevant normative standard is Bayesian probability theory. We argue that the study of "uncertain deduction" should directly ask ...[more]