Inference and Understanding: A Philosophical and Psychological Perspective

by Ken Manktelow

The process of inference is essential for everyday communication and understanding. It is also central to scientific reasoning and is the focus of research in many different areas, most recently in cognitive science. This up-to-date review of empirical and theoretical work on reasoning and linguistic inference will be a useful introduction for students of language and thought. Focusing on the relationship between what people do and what, according...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415007852
• ISBN13: 9780415007856
• Release Date: June 1990
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 194 Pages