On the Interplay Between Interpretation and Reasoning in Compelling Fallacies.

ABSTRACT: We investigate the articulation between domain-general reasoning and interpretive processes in failures of deductive reasoning. We focus on illusory inferences from disjunction-like elements, a broad class of deductive fallacies studied in some detail over the past 15 years. These fallacies have received accounts grounded in reasoning processes, holding that human reasoning diverges from normative standards. A subset of these fallacies, however, can be analyzed differently: human reasoning is not to blame, instead the premises were interpreted in a nonobvious, yet perfectly predictable and reasonable way. Once we consider these interpretations, the apparent fallacious conclusion is no mistake at all. We give a two-factor account of these fallacies that incorporates both reasoning-based ele

SUBMITTER: Picat L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11614321 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature