Abstract
The experiment attempted to provide evidence that errors in reasoning do not imply that reasoning is not occurring at all. One suggestion has been that errors occur because Ss misinterpret syllogistic premises in order to refer to simpler class relations. When Ss were given modified syllogisms having these simpler relations as premises, they performed considerably better than when given traditional syllogisms. Furthermore, they responded to the traditional syllogisms as if they were the modified syllogisms, which accounted for their errors. A second source of error was traced to the logical structure of the syllogism. It was found that the more alternatives generated by a set of premises, the more difficult was the syllogism. It was argued that errors in reasoning are not the result of illogical or alogical processes, but are the result of an incomplete analysis of the logical structure of the syllogism.
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