Is the Notion of Rationality of Inference Normative or Descriptive?

• Authors: Anna Wójtowicz

Title variants

PL

Czy pojęcie racjonalności wnioskowania ma charakter normatywny, czy deskryptywny?

EN

Is the Notion of Rationality of Inference Normative or Descriptive?

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

PL

Defeasible inferences can be formalized and evaluated in many different ways. It is tempting to make a choice between them by using the argument “from people”. According to this line of thought, inferences should be described and evaluated in the same way as this would be done by people. In the article I identify the principles on which the argument from people is based, what its applications are, and where its main weaknesses lie. The central claim of the paper is that the argument should be used with extreme caution, because of its fundamental methodological shortcomings.

• Publisher: University of Warsaw, Institute of Philosophy
• Journal: Filozofia Nauki
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 22
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 15-34

Dates

published

2014-12-01

Contributors

author

Anna Wójtowicz