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Human and machine thinking

Philip N. Johnson-Laird

(John M. MacEachran memorial lecture series, 1990)

L. Erlbaum Associates, 1993

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Includes bibliographical references and indexes

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This book aims to reach an understanding of how the mind carries out three sorts of thinking -- deduction, induction, and creation -- to consider what goes right and what goes wrong, and to explore computational models of these sorts of thinking. Written for students of the mind -- psychologists, computer scientists, philosophers, linguists, and other cognitive scientists -- it also provides general readers with a self-contained account of human and machine thinking. The author presents his point of view, rather than a review, as simply as possible so that no technical background is required. Like the field of research itself, it calls for hard thinking about thinking.

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Contents: Deduction. Induction. Creation.

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