The Problems of the Mental Logic with the Double Negation: The Necessity of a Semantic Approach

• Authors: Miguel López-Astorga
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The double negation has always been considered by the logical systems from ancient times to the present. In fact, that is an issue that the current syntactic theories studying human reasoning, for example, the mental logic theory, address today. However, in this paper, I claim that, in the case of some languages such as Spanish, the double negation causes problems for the cognitive theories mainly based on formal schemata and supporting the idea of a universal syntax of thought in the human mind. Thus, I propose that, given those problems, semantic frameworks such as that of the mental models theory seem to be more appropriate for explaining the human inferential activity.

Keywords

EN

double negation; formal rules; mental models; semantics; syntax

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 46
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 143-153

Dates

published

2016-09-01

online

2016-11-23

Contributors

author

Miguel López-Astorga

• Institute of Humanistic Studies “Juan Ignacio Molina”, University of Talca,

Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/slgr-2016-0037