Abstract
The theory of mental models is a current cognitive approach trying to describe the way people make inferences. According to this theory, people reason from possibilities or models linked to sentences. Sometimes, such possibilities or models are transformed by the action of a semantic modulation. The point this paper is intended to make is that Stoic logic also has the machinery to explain semantic processes such as that of modulation. This is shown by means of the criterion Chrysippus of Soli provided for conditional sentences and the theory of sign related to that criterion.
Funding source: Fondo Fondecyt de Continuidad para Investigadores Senior, Universidad de Talca
Award Identifier / Grant number: Código FCSEN2102
Funding source: PIA Ciencias Cognitivas, Centro de Investigación en Ciencias Cognitivas, Instituto de Estudios Humanísticos, Universidad de Talca
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Research funding: This work was supported by Fondo Fondecyt de Continuidad para Investigadores Senior, Universidad de Talca (Código FCSEN2102) and PIA Ciencias Cognitivas, Centro de Investigación en Ciencias Cognitivas, Instituto de Estudios Humanísticos, Universidad de Talca.
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- Rationalizing: Kant on Moral Self-Deception
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