Mental logic and its difficulties with disjunction

  • Miguel López-Astorga University of Talca
Keywords: disjunction, mental logic, mental models, semantic possibilities

Abstract

The mental logic theory does not accept the disjunction introduction rule of standard propositional calculus as a natural schema of the human mind. In this way, the problem that I want to show in this paper is that, however, that theory does admit another much more complex schema in which the mentioned rule must be used as a previous step. So, I try to argue that this is a very important problem that the mental logic theory needs to solve, and claim that another rival theory, the mental models theory, does not have these difficulties.

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Published
2016-05-26
How to Cite
López-Astorga M. (2016). Mental logic and its difficulties with disjunction. Círculo de Lingüística Aplicada a la Comunicación, 66, 195-209. https://doi.org/10.5209/CLAC.52772
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