Creutzer comments on Does model theory [psychology] predict anything? (book: "How We Reason" (2009)) - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Creutzer 03 June 2013 01:10:18PM *  1 point [-]

Yes, several (mostly Dutch) people make that claim, and it's not a daft one. Don't confuse formal logic with classical logic!

Comment author: JoshuaZ 04 June 2013 04:25:55AM 0 points [-]

Yes, several (mostly Dutch) people make that claim, and it's not a daft one. Don't confuse formal logic with classical logic!

I'm not sure what you are getting at here. Are you referencing Dutch booking? If so, I fail to see how that's relevant to Carinthium's question which is not about what is ideal reasoning but rather how humans actually reason.

Comment author: Creutzer 04 June 2013 06:06:29AM 2 points [-]

No, I am literally referring to logicians in the present-day Netherlands. There are a bunch of people there who look into the use of (non-monotonic, highly non-classical) logics for modeling human reasoning, perhaps most prominently Michiel van Lambalgen.