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An antidote to illusory inferences
| Content Provider | Scilit |
|---|---|
| Author | Santamaria, Carlos Johnson-Laird, P. N. |
| Copyright Year | 2000 |
| Description | The mental model theory predicts that reasoners normally represent what is true, but not what is false. One consequence is that reasoners should make “illusory” inferences, which are compelling but invalid. Three experiments confirmed the existence of such illusions based on disjunctions of disjunctions. They also established a successful antidote to them: Reasoners are much less likely to succumb to illusions if the inferences concern disjunctions of physical objects (alternative newspaper advertisements) rather disjunctions of the truth values of assertions. The results shed light both on the cause of the illusions and on the current controversy among different theories of reasoning. |
| Related Links | http://mentalmodels.princeton.edu/papers/2000antidote-to-illusions.pdf |
| Ending Page | 333 |
| Page Count | 21 |
| Starting Page | 313 |
| ISSN | 13546783 |
| e-ISSN | 14640708 |
| DOI | 10.1080/135467800750038157 |
| Journal | Thinking & Reasoning |
| Issue Number | 4 |
| Volume Number | 6 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited |
| Publisher Date | 2000-11-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Journal: Thinking & Reasoning History and Philosophy of Science Advertisements Antidote Model Inferences Assertions False Invalid Illusory True Compelling |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
| Subject | Philosophy Experimental and Cognitive Psychology |
