The mental models theory is a current cognitive approach claiming that human intellectual
activity is essentially about semantic possibilities and that syntax and logical form are not …

Although the mental models theory denies it, precisely based on essential theses of this last
framework, it has been argued that a logic of human thought really exists. In particular, it has …

The syntactic theories trying to describe human reasoning, communication, and language
often claim that the role played by pragmatics basically consists of providing hidden …

In 2015, Johnson-Laird, Khemlani, and Goodwin indicated four reasons why a basically
syntactic approach explaining the human inferential activity is hard to accept nowadays …

This paper explores the idea of a syntax of thought proposed by theories such as the one of
the mental logic. Taking into account that syntax as it is described by the mental logic theory …

From the theory of mental models, it has been proposed that the sentences with 'if'can refer
to ten different interpretations. Those interpretations are related to the situations in which …

The current formal theories trying to account for reasoning and language often need to resort
to the thesis of the pragmatic or implicit premises to explain the real role pragmatics plays in …

From the mental models theory, it has been claimed that the conjunction commutativity law, that
is, the logical law pr Page 1 ABSTRACT: From the mental models theory, it has been claimed …

It has been shown that conjunction in natural language can refer to interpretations akin to
those of the conditional. This means that it can be thought that there are cases in which …

¿ Existe acaso un mito ilustrado? Hay, ciertamente, la opinión común que considera la
Ilustración (Aufklärung, Lumières) como el tránsito de la oscuridad a la luz; es decir, como …