title: Everyday life reasoning, possible worlds and cultural processes.
abstract: Discussing Faiciuc's paper, I first tackle the problem of fallacies in deductive reasoning showing how, in a possible world theory, non correct forms of reasoning can be useful strategies for discovery, providing these strategies remain at a hypothesis level. Secondly, everyday reasoning and its specificity in comparison to logical-normative one are analyzed. This topic stresses the notion of interpretation and, in this context, the role of the community and of cultural canons shared by the subject. From this point of view, reasoning does not occur, only, in the brain of a person but in everyday exchanges occurring between individuals and the history of their community.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Florence, Via S. Nicolò 93, Florence, Italy. Smortian@psico.unifi.it
authors.forename: Andrea
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Smorti
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D003071:Cognition; D032882:Comprehension; D003469:Culture; D003657:Decision Making; D004644:Emotions; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D007600:Judgment; D008128:Logic; D008960:Models, Psychological; D011340:Problem Solving; D013850:Thinking; D014705:Verbal Behavior