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  • 8 - How We Reason, Individually and in Groups

  • from Part III - Deduction and Cognition
  • Catarina Dutilh Novaes, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
  • Book:
    The Dialogical Roots of Deduction
    Published online:
    10 December 2020
    Print publication:
    17 December 2020, pp 151-168

  • Summary

    This chapter presents an overview of experimental work on deductive reasoning, which has shown that human reasoners do not seem to reason spontaneously according to the deduction canons. However, there are also experimental results suggesting that, when tackling deductive tasks in groups, performance comes much closer to the canons. These findings offer a partial vindication of the dialogical conception of deduction insofar as they show that, when given the opportunity to engage in dialogues with others, humans become better deductive reasoners.