Bayesian Rationality: The Probabilistic Approach to Human Reasoning (Oxford Cognitive Science Series)

by Mike Oaksford (Author)

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  Illustrated
  2007

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  Suggesting that the Western conception of the mind as a logical system is flawed, this work re-appraises the conventional wisdom in the psychology of reasoning. It argues that cognition should be understood in terms of probability theory, the calculus of uncertain reasoning, rather than in terms of logic, the calculus of certain reasoning.