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Logical Abilities in Children: Volume 4: Reasoning and Concepts book cover

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Logical Abilities in Children: Volume 4 Reasoning and Concepts

By Daniel N. Osherson Copyright 1976
260 Pages
by Routledge

260 Pages
by Routledge

260 Pages
by Routledge
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Originally published in 1976, this fourth and final volume in a series that met with critical acclaim is concerned with a certain kind of answer to the question "What distinguishes the concepts that are a natural part of human languages from those that are merely expressible in language?" The kind of answers contemplated rely on formal properties of the logics that overlay the two sorts of... Read more

Preface.  Part 1: Introduction  1. Two Leftovers from Volume 3  2. Some Methodological Issues  3. A Deduction Model for Quantifiers  Part 2: Experimental Test of Mq, and the Question of Developmental Change  4. Experiment 1: Test of Mq with Adolescent Subjects  5. Experiment 2: Test of Mq with Child Subjects  6. Experiment 3: Test of the Model with Arguments Based on Time  7. Experiment 4: Test of Mt with Child Subjects  Part 3: Explanatory Adequacy of Deduction Models  8. Explanatory Adequecy: General Considerations  9. Proposals for a Theory of Conceptual Domains  Part 4: An Initial Test of the Theory  10. A Deduction Model for the Conceptual Domain of Necessity and Possibility  11. A Deduction Model for the Conceptual Domain of Obligation and Permissibility.  Epilogue.  Appendix Richard F. Poppen.  References.  Author Index.  Subject Index.

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Daniel N. Osherson

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