Over the past decade, the question of whether there is a mental
logic has become subject to considerable debate. There have been
attacks by critics who believe that all reasoning uses mental
models and return attacks on mental-models theory. This controversy
has invaded various journals and has created issues between mental
logic and the biases-and-heuristics approach to reasoning, and the
content-dependent theorists. However, despite its pertinence to
current issues in cognition, few cognitive scientists really know
what the mental-logic theory is, and misapprehensions are
prevalent. This volume is a comprehensive presentation of the
theory of mental logic and its implications for cognition and
development, including the acquisition of language. The theory
offered here has three parts. Part I is the mental logic per se
that contains a set of inference schemas. Part II is a reasoning
program that applies the schemas in lines of reasoning, including a
direct-reasoning routine and more sophisticated indirect-reasoning
strategies. Part III of the theory is pragmatic, proposing that the
basic meaning of each logic particle is in the inferences that are
sanctioned by its inference schemas.
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