连贯性,而不是有条件的含义,解释了相关性效应
Maxime Bourlier1, Baptiste Jacquet1,2, Daniel Lassiter3
1Université Paris 8, Laboratoire Cognition Humaine et Artificielle (CHArt, RNSR 200515259U), Saint-Denis, France.
Frontiers in psychology
|May 31, 2023
概括
该研究发现,在条件陈述中需要推断连接并不是它们独有的,它支持一个一般的话语连贯理论,而不是专门的条件理论.
科学领域:
- 认知科学 认知科学
- 语言学的语言学.
- 语言的哲学语言的哲学
背景情况:
- 缺失环节条件,其中两个条款都是真实的,但缺乏逻辑连接 (例如",如果蝙蝠有翅膀,巴黎在法国"),通常被认为是不可接受的.
- 假设推理理论提出了一个常规要求,在条件中有一个推理链接来解释这一点.
- 贝叶斯理论质疑这一点,建议更广泛的话语连贯性要求适用于所有句子连接.
研究的目的:
- 通过实验来调查陈述的感知可接受性是否取决于推断连接.
- 为了比较推理链接在条件中的作用与其他语句类型 (如连接和并列) 的作用.
- 测试贝叶斯方法结合一般话语连贯性理论对假设推理理论的预测.
主要方法:
- 进行了一项实验,比较了三种类型的陈述的可接受性:条件 ("如果A,C"),连接 ("A和C") 和赤裸裸的并列 ("AC").
- 在这些语句类型中操纵了条款之间的系统推理联系的存在或不存在.
主要成果:
- 推理联系的存在或缺失以类似的方式影响了条件,连接和并置的可接受性.
- 观察到一个单一的系统异常,这与之前的连贯理论研究中的预测一致.
- 结果表明,推断链接的影响并不仅限于条件陈述.
结论:
- 这些发现支持贝叶斯方法和话语连贯性的一般理论,因为推断链接的效应在不同的陈述结构中是一致的.
- 这挑战了假设推理理论对条件陈述中推理连接的独特要求的说法.
- 话语连贯性为包括条件在内的各种连接陈述的可接受性提供了统一的解释.
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