Mental logic and its difficulties with disjunction

• López-Astorga, Miguel ^[1]
  1. [1] Universidad de Talca

     Universidad de Talca

     Provincia de Talca, Chile

     
• Localización: Círculo de lingüística aplicada a la comunicación, ISSN-e 1576-4737, Nº. 66, 2016, págs. 195-209
• Idioma: inglés
• DOI: 10.5209/CLAC.52772
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  • 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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