TY  - CHAP
A1  - Haida, Andreas
A1  - Crnič, Luka
A1  - Grodzinsky, Yosef
T1  - Linguistic barriers to logical reasoning: a new perspective on Aristotelian syllogisms
T2  - Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 22, Vol. 1 / eds. Uli Sauerland and Stephanie Solt. Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft: ZAS papers in linguistics ; Nr. 60
N2  - Experimental studies investigating logical reasoning performance show very high error rates of up to 80% and more. Previous research identified scalar inferences of the sentences of logical arguments as a major error source. We present new analytical tools to quantify the impact of scalar inferences on syllogistic reasoning. Our proposal builds on a new classification of Aristotelian syllogisms and a closely linked classification of reasoning behaviors/strategies.
We argue that the variation in error rates across syllogistic reasoning tasks is in part due to individual variation: reasoners follow different reasoning strategies and these strategies play out differently for syllogisms of different classes.
KW  - syllogisms
KW  - reasoning errors
KW  - individual variation
KW  - scalar inferences
Y1  - 2020
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/55822
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-558222
SN  - 1435-9588
SN  - 0947-7055
SP  - 453
EP  - 468
PB  - Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS)
CY  - Berlin
ER  -