2024
DOI: 10.1111/cogs.13485
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Reasoning From Quantified Modal Premises

Ana Cristina Quelhas,
Célia Rasga,
P. N. Johnson‐Laird

Abstract: Quantified modal inferences interest logicians, linguists, and computer scientists, but no previous psychological study of them appears to be in the literature. Here is an example of one: All those artists are businessmen. Paulo is possibly one of the artists. What follows?People tend to conclude: Paulo is possibly a businessman (Experiment 1). It seems plausible, and it follows from an intuitive mental model in which Paulo is one of a set of artists who are businessmen. Further deliberation can yield a model … Show more

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