Formal Models for Real People
Michiel van Lambalgen, Marian Counihan · Journal of Logic Language and Information · 2008
( 1 ) Experiments with reasoning tasks, such as the famous Wason selection task (Wason 1968), show that logical form is not a determinant of reasoning (2) Logic cannot deal with vagueness and prototypicality (3) Logic cannot deal with uncertainty and must be replaced by probability theory, which is after all the calculus of uncertainty (4) What we know about the neocortex suggests that the computations executed by the brain are very different from logical computations (5) The computational complexity of logic is too high for logic to be a realistic model of cognition