The Erotetic Theory of Reasoning: Bridges Between Formal Semantics and the Psychology of Deductive Inference*

Koralus, Philipp; Mascarenhas, Salvador

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“…The intuitive idea at the foundation of the erotetic theory of reasoning (Koralus and Mascarenhas, 2013) is that human reasoning fundamentally proceeds by raising questions and trying to answer them as quickly as possible. This idea is made mathematically rigorous using tools from set theory and formal semantics, making it possible to calculate concrete predictions.…”

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“…Our primary objective of this paper is to draw on the recently developed erotetic theory of reasoning (Koralus and Mascarenhas, 2013) in order to model distinct patterns of anomalous reasoning exhibited by psychiatric patients. The erotetic theory conceives of the aim of reasoning as asking questions and answering them as quickly as possible.…”

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“…In brief, we propose that we can make sense of the pattern of reasoning in delusional patients as stemming from reluctance to endogenously raise questions during the reasoning process. The idea is that in ordinary people, endogenous, or "self-generated" questions mitigate the frequency of various Erotetic Theory of Delusional Thinking 5 reasoning fallacies (Koralus and Mascarenhas 2013), and that this barrier is impaired in delusional patients.…”

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The erotetic theory of delusional thinking

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Koralus

2015

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ConclusionsAcknowledgments: Parts of this work were presented at a graduate seminar at the University of Oxford and at the Language and Cognition Seminar at King's College London. We would like to thank the participants on both occasions for their helpful feedback. We also would like to thank Bill Fulford, Matthew Broome, and Salvador Mascarenhas for many thoughtful comments on an earlier version. AbstractIntroduction. In this paper, we argue for a novel account of one cognitive factor

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“…For instance, Koralus and Mascarenhas [2013] develop an algorithmic analysis of deductive reasoning based on mental models (the so called Erotetic Theory of Reasoning) and in fact establish a completeness result for a special case of their derivation system with respect to "classical" logical semantics.…”

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Axiomatization in the Meaning Sciences

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2018

The Science of Meaning

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While much of semantic theorizing is based on intuitions about logical phenomena associated with linguistic constructions-phenomena such as consistency and entailment-it is rare to see axiomatic treatments of linguistic fragments. Given a fragment interpreted in some class of formally specified models, it is often possible to ask for a characterization of the reasoning patterns validated by the class of models. Axiomatizations provide such a characterization, often in a perspicuous and efficient manner.In this paper, we highlight some of the benefits of providing axiomatizations for the purpose of semantic theorizing. We illustrate some of these benefits using three examples from the study of modality.

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“…Cognitively, questions drive the process of inquiry [Friedman, 2013], allowing us to pursue and achieve knowledge; additionally, they have been argued to play a key role in human reasoning [Koralus and Mascarenhas, 2014]. The role of questions in logic is perhaps less evident, but not less crucial [see Wiśniewski, 2013;Ciardelli, 2016b,a, for discussion].…”

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Question Meaning = Resolution Conditions

Ciardelli

2017

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Abstract. Traditional approaches to the semantics of questions analyze questions indirectly, via the notion of an answer. In recent work on inquisitive semantics, a different perspective is taken: the meaning of a question is equated with its resolution conditions, just like the meaning of a statement is traditionally equated with its truth-conditions. In this paper I argue that this proposal improves on previous approaches, combining the formal elegance and explanatory power of Groenendijk and Stokhof's partition theory with the greater generality afforded by answer-set theories.

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The Erotetic Theory of Reasoning: Bridges Between Formal Semantics and the Psychology of Deductive Inference*

Cited by 48 publications

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The erotetic theory of delusional thinking

Axiomatization in the Meaning Sciences

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