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Filozofska istraživanja, Vol. 37 No. 4, 2017

Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.21464/fi37406

Influence of Natural Language on Reasoning

Ines Skelac   ORCID icon orcid.org/0000-0003-4390-9161 ; Hrvatska zaklada za znanost, Nazorova 2, HR–51410 Opatija
Nenad Smokrović   ORCID icon orcid.org/0000-0003-4834-5289 ; Sveučilište u Rijeci, Filozofski fakultet, Sveučilišna avenija 4, HR–51000 Rijeka

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APA 6th Edition
Skelac, I. & Smokrović, N. (2017). Influence of Natural Language on Reasoning. Filozofska istraživanja, 37 (4), 709-722. https://doi.org/10.21464/fi37406
MLA 8th Edition
Skelac, Ines and Nenad Smokrović. "Influence of Natural Language on Reasoning." Filozofska istraživanja, vol. 37, no. 4, 2017, pp. 709-722. https://doi.org/10.21464/fi37406. Accessed 20 Jan. 2021.
Chicago 17th Edition
Skelac, Ines and Nenad Smokrović. "Influence of Natural Language on Reasoning." Filozofska istraživanja 37, no. 4 (2017): 709-722. https://doi.org/10.21464/fi37406
Harvard
Skelac, I., and Smokrović, N. (2017). 'Influence of Natural Language on Reasoning', Filozofska istraživanja, 37(4), pp. 709-722. https://doi.org/10.21464/fi37406
Vancouver
Skelac I, Smokrović N. Influence of Natural Language on Reasoning. Filozofska istraživanja [Internet]. 2017 [cited 2021 January 20];37(4):709-722. https://doi.org/10.21464/fi37406
IEEE
I. Skelac and N. Smokrović, "Influence of Natural Language on Reasoning", Filozofska istraživanja, vol.37, no. 4, pp. 709-722, 2017. [Online]. https://doi.org/10.21464/fi37406
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APA 6th Edition
Skelac, I. & Smokrović, N. (2017). Utjecaj prirodnoga jezika na zaključivanje. Filozofska istraživanja, 37 (4), 709-722. https://doi.org/10.21464/fi37406
MLA 8th Edition
Skelac, Ines and Nenad Smokrović. "Utjecaj prirodnoga jezika na zaključivanje." Filozofska istraživanja, vol. 37, no. 4, 2017, pp. 709-722. https://doi.org/10.21464/fi37406. Accessed 20 Jan. 2021.
Chicago 17th Edition
Skelac, Ines and Nenad Smokrović. "Utjecaj prirodnoga jezika na zaključivanje." Filozofska istraživanja 37, no. 4 (2017): 709-722. https://doi.org/10.21464/fi37406
Harvard
Skelac, I., and Smokrović, N. (2017). 'Utjecaj prirodnoga jezika na zaključivanje', Filozofska istraživanja, 37(4), pp. 709-722. https://doi.org/10.21464/fi37406
Vancouver
Skelac I, Smokrović N. Utjecaj prirodnoga jezika na zaključivanje. Filozofska istraživanja [Internet]. 2017 [cited 2021 January 20];37(4):709-722. https://doi.org/10.21464/fi37406
IEEE
I. Skelac and N. Smokrović, "Utjecaj prirodnoga jezika na zaključivanje", Filozofska istraživanja, vol.37, no. 4, pp. 709-722, 2017. [Online]. https://doi.org/10.21464/fi37406

Abstracts
The relationship between natural language and thinking is investigated by the analysis of the influence of natural language on deductive reasoning with the special emphasis on the correlation between the efficiency in the use of complex grammar structures and language use in general and the efficiency in deductive reasoning. The detected relation between different language structures and specificities of reasoning could imply a possibility that language capacity, meaning and scope of connectives and quantifiers, as well as in word order, influence deductive reasoning. If differences in natural languages may influence differences in reasoning, it could be concluded that thinking is language-dependent at least with respect to the formal possibilities of language. Further, if the efficiency in language use is directly related to the efficiency in reasoning, this could suggest that reasoning is strongly language-dependent and even that particular differences in reasoning may be caused by differences in language capacity.

Keywords
natural language; language performance; language competence; reasoning; quantifiers; passive

Hrčak ID: 199380

URI
https://hrcak.srce.hr/199380

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