Development and necessary norms of reasoning

Frontiers in Psychology

Henry Markovits¹ 

关键词: development;    reasoning;    logic;    norms;    communication;    epistemology;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00488

学科分类：心理学（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

The question of whether reasoning can, or should, be described by a single normative model is an important one. In the following, I combine epistemological considerations taken from Piaget’s notion of genetic epistemology, a hypothesis about the role of reasoning in communication and developmental data to argue that some basic logical principles are in fact highly normative. I argue here that explicit, analytic human reasoning, in contrast to intuitive reasoning, uniformly relies on a form of validity that allows distinguishing between valid and invalid arguments based on the existence of counterexamples to conclusions.

【 授权许可】

CC BY