Psychology

Deductive inference

Document Type

Article

Abstract

Reviews literature on topics that interface or intersect with deduction, drawing on philosophical, linguistic, and cognitive work. The logic–language interface in linguistic semantics and cognition is discussed. Perspectives on inference and cognitive activity are considered, and the interplay of form and content in deduction is described. The dialectic between form, content, and context is the central question for theory on deductive inference, and this research is evaluated from that angle. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)

Publication Title

Annual Review of Psychology

Publication Date

1995

Volume

46

Issue

1

First Page

525

Last Page

559

ISSN

0066-4308

DOI

10.1146/annurev.ps.46.020195.002521

Keywords

deduction, language, reasoning, semantics, thinking

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