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The impossibilty of inverted reasoners

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posted on 2023-06-08, 06:25 authored by Murali Ramachandran
An 'inverted' reasoner is someone who finds the inferences we find easy, inversely difficult, and those that we find difficult, inversely easy. The notion was initially introduced by Christopher Cherniak in his book, Minimal Rationality, and appealed to by Stephen Stich in The Fragmentation of Reason. While a number of difficulties have been noted about what reasoning would amount to for such a reasoner, what has not been brought out in the literature is that such a reasoner is in fact logically impossible. This is what I hope to demonstrate in this paper.

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  • Published

Journal

Acta Analytica

ISSN

0353-5150

Publisher

Springer

Issue

4

Volume

25

Page range

499-502

Pages

4.0

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  • Philosophy Publications

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  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2012-02-06

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