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" How we reason / "
Philip N. Johnson-Laird
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BL
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624000
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| Main Entry
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Johnson-Laird, P. N., (Philip Nicholas),1936-
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How we reason /\ Philip N. Johnson-Laird
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| Publication Statement
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Oxford ;New York :: Oxford University Press,, 2006
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x, 573 p. :: ill. (some col.) ;24 cm
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0198569769 (hardback: alk. paper)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [497]-544) and indexes
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| Contents
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Pt. I. The world in our conscious minds. Icons and images ; Models of possibilities: from conjuring tricks to disasters. -- Pt. II. The world in our unconscious minds. Mental architecture and the unconscious ; Intuitions and unconscious reasoning ; Emotions as inferences ; Reasoning in psychological illnesses. -- Pt. III. How we make deductions. Only connections ; I'm my own grandpa: reasoning about identities and other relations ; Syllogisms and reasoning about properties ; Isn't everyone an optimist? The case of complex reasoning. -- Pt. IV. How we make inductions. Modulation: a step towards induction ; Knowledge and inductions ; Sherlock Holmes's method: Abduction. -- The balance of probabilities. --
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Pt. V. What makes us rational. Counterexamples ; Truths, lies, and the higher reasoning. -- Pt. VI. How we develop our ability to reason. Our development ; Strategies and cultures ; How we can improve our reasoning. -- Pt. VII. Knowledge, beliefs, and problems. The puzzles of If ; Causes and obligations ; Beliefs, heresies, and changes in mind ; How we solve problems. -- Pt. VIII. Expert reasoning in technology, logic, and science. Flying bicycles: how the Wright Brothers invented the airplane ; Unwrapping an enigma ; On the mode of the communication of cholera ; Howe we reason. -- Glossary
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Reasoning (Psychology)
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153.4/3
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BF442.J64 2006
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