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The Cognitive Processes of Formal Inferences

The Cognitive Processes of Formal Inferences

Yingxu Wang
Copyright: © 2009 |Pages: 14
ISBN13: 9781605661704|ISBN10: 1605661708|ISBN13 Softcover: 9781616925642|EISBN13: 9781605661711
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-170-4.ch006
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Wang, Yingxu. "The Cognitive Processes of Formal Inferences." Novel Approaches in Cognitive Informatics and Natural Intelligence, edited by Yingxu Wang, IGI Global, 2009, pp. 92-105. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-170-4.ch006

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Wang, Y. (2009). The Cognitive Processes of Formal Inferences. In Y. Wang (Ed.), Novel Approaches in Cognitive Informatics and Natural Intelligence (pp. 92-105). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-170-4.ch006

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Wang, Yingxu. "The Cognitive Processes of Formal Inferences." In Novel Approaches in Cognitive Informatics and Natural Intelligence, edited by Yingxu Wang, 92-105. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2009. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-170-4.ch006

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Abstract

Theoretical research is predominately an inductive process, while applied research is mainly a deductive process. Both inference processes are based on the cognitive process and means of abstraction. This chapter describes the cognitive processes of formal inferences such as deduction, induction, abduction, and analogy. Conventional propositional arguments adopt static causal inference. This chapter introduces more rigorous and dynamic inference methodologies, which are modeled and described as a set of cognitive processes encompassing a series of basic inference steps. A set of mathematical models of formal inference methodologies is developed. Formal descriptions of the 4 forms of cognitive processes of inferences are presented using Real-Time Process Algebra (RTPA). The cognitive processes and mental mechanisms of inferences are systematically explored and rigorously modeled. Applications of abstraction and formal inferences in both the revilement of the fundamental mechanisms of the brain and the investigation of next generation cognitive computers are explored.

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