Re: problems with counterfactual reasoning

From: Mitch Harris (harrisq_at_tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de)
Date: 08/04/04 

Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2004 09:18:13 +0200

Daryl McCullough wrote:
>
> Some people have a real problem with conditional reasoning. Once
> they start reasoning under a counterfactual assumption, they toss
> out everything they know.

How do you get someone to accept such reasoning? Is it just
practice?

I think parr has the right question with -1*-1 = -1. It's
totally counterintuitive (for some reasonable concept of
intuition). Even knowing and using the rule, an unwanted
conclusion is still easy to deny. 

-- 
Mitch Harris
(remove q to reply)
Quantcast