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An examination of the consistency characteristics of abelson and Rosenberg's “symbolic psycho‐logic”
Author(s) -
Lambert Robert M.
Publication year - 1966
Publication title -
behavioral science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.371
H-Index - 45
eISSN - 1099-1743
pISSN - 0005-7940
DOI - 10.1002/bs.3830110207
Subject(s) - normative , epistemology , consistency (knowledge bases) , simple (philosophy) , psychology , reflexive pronoun , process (computing) , cognitive psychology , psychoanalysis , social psychology , philosophy , computer science , artificial intelligence , operating system
In reference to this article the author states: Since my earliest exposure to psychological theory, I have been convinced that the old conception of psychology as a mental' science had more in its favor than its historical plight indicates. It was Descartes who convinced himself poignantly that his existence was real by recognizing the simple fact that he thought. Whether the phenomenal awareness that an individual possesses of his thoughts is sound evidence of his existence may be questionable; but clearly, that awareness makes thinking a psychological process of considerable importance to the psychologist interested in mental phenomena. The mathematical psychologist who looks for a way of analyzing thinking may be tempted to start by trying to establish a comparison between human modes of simple verbal deduction on the one hand and the normative prescriptions for valid deduction given by the logician on the other. It was in the process of attempting such a comparison that I came to know, and indeed appreciate, the work of Abelson and Rosenberg.