The Psychology of Reasoning

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If p then q will be the kind of positions where you can substitute anything in there. And indeed there's a famous example where if you substitute in something from everyday life like drinking and driving the rule becomes a lot easier to do the task. I think it also shows that where this is a kind of a logic rule so you can do it with vowels, consonants of numbers and even numbers, but the general form is always if something bends something else rather than if something, then not something else.

Deliberation. Debate. Conversation. Though it can feel like that’s what we are doing online as we trade arguments back and forth, most of the places where we currently gather make it much easier to produce arguments in isolation rather than evaluate them together in groups. The latest research suggests we will need much more of the latter if we hope to create a new, modern, functioning marketplace of ideas. In this episode, psychologist Tom Stafford takes us through his research into how to do just that.

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