On the consistency of Sherlock Holmes’ old maxim: A logical and neurocomputational approach
| Autor: | Eduardo Mizraji |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
| Předmět: |
0301 basic medicine
Statement (logic) Philosophy media_common.quotation_subject Cognition Linguistics 03 medical and health sciences 030104 developmental biology 0302 clinical medicine Modal History and Philosophy of Science Feeling Maxim 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Natural language media_common |
| Zdroj: | THEORIA. An International Journal for Theory, History and Foundations of Science. 31:7-25 |
| ISSN: | 2171-679X 0495-4548 |
| DOI: | 10.1387/theoria.13959 |
| Popis: | Natural languages can express some logical propositions that humans are able to understand. We illustrate this fact with a famous text that Conan Doyle attributed to Holmes: “It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth”. This is a subtle logical statement usually felt as an evident true. The problem we are trying to solve is the cognitive reason for such a feeling. We postulate here that we accept Holmes’ maxim as true because our adult brains are equipped with neural modules that perform naturally modal logical computations. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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