Mizraji, Eduardo (2016) Illustrating a neural model of logic computations: The case of Sherlock Holmes’ old maxim. THEORIA. An International Journal for Theory, History and Foundations of Science, 31 (1). pp. 7-25. ISSN 2171-679X
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Abstract
Natural languages can express some logical propositions that humans are able to understand. We illustrate this fact with a famous text that Conan Doyle attributed to Holmes: “It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth”. This is a subtle logical statement usually felt as an evident true. The problem we are trying to solve is the cognitive reason for such a feeling. We postulate here that we accept Holmes’ maxim as true because our adult brains are equipped with neural modules that perform naturally modal logical computations.
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| Additional Information: | ISSN: 0495-4548 (print) | ||||||
| Keywords: | Neural computations; Natural language; Models of reasoning; Modal logics | ||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Computation/Information | ||||||
| Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email theoria@ehu.es | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 08 Jun 2016 19:41 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 08 Jun 2016 19:41 | ||||||
| Item ID: | 12170 | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | THEORIA. An International Journal for Theory, History and Foundations of Science | ||||||
| Publisher: | Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea / Universidad del País Vasco | ||||||
| Official URL: | http://www.ehu.eus/ojs/index.php/THEORIA/article/v... | ||||||
| DOI or Unique Handle: | 10.1387/theoria.13959 | ||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Computation/Information | ||||||
| Date: | January 2016 | ||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 7-25 | ||||||
| Volume: | 31 | ||||||
| Number: | 1 | ||||||
| ISSN: | 2171-679X | ||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/12170 |
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