An explanation of or-deletions and other paradoxical disjunctive inferences

Some inferences of the sort: A or B; therefore A, which are invalid in standard logics, are sensible in life: You can enter now or later; therefore, you can enter now. That these "or-deletions" follow necessarily or only possibly is a by-product of a theory of mental models. Its semantics...

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Main Author: Rasga, Célia (author)
Other Authors: Quelhas, Ana Cristina (author), Johnson-Laird, P. N. (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2022
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10400.12/8745
Country:Portugal
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