{"pk":27892,"title":"Monotonicity and the Complexity of Reasoning with Quantifiers","subtitle":null,"abstract":"We present a natural logic for reasoning with quanti-fiers that can predict human performance in appro-priate reasoning tasks. The model is an extension ofthat in (Geurts, 2003) but allows for better fit withdata on syllogistic reasoning and is extended to ac-count for reasoning with iterated quantifiers. Weassign weights to inference rules and operationalizethe complexity of a reasoning pattern as weightedlength of proof in our logic – this results in a measureof complexity that outperforms other models in theirpredictive capacity and allows for the derivation ofempirically testable hypotheses.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"Reasoning"},{"word":"Quantifiers"},{"word":"Natural Logic"},{"word":"psychology"},{"word":"syllogisms"}],"section":"Publication-based-Talks","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1w7871t8","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Jonathan","middle_name":"","last_name":"Sippel","name_suffix":"","institution":"U of Amersterdam","department":""},{"first_name":"Jakub","middle_name":"","last_name":"Szymanik","name_suffix":"","institution":"U of Amersterdam","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2018-01-01T21:00:00+03:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/27892/galley/17530/download/"}]}