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A NON-AXIOMATIC SYSTEM CAN DEAL WITH APPARENT NONMONOTONICITY IN THE SAME WAY AS HUMAN BEINGS (pages 463-473)

Miguel LÓPEZ ASTORGA ABSTRACT: Lukowski argued that four typical examples of inferences used to show that human beings’ natural reasoning is nonmonotonic do not reveal that. Lukowski’s analyses support the idea that those inferences are actually monotonic deductions. My aim here is to check whether a particular non-axiomatic logic is consistent with the habitual conclusions people draw in those kinds …

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