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Fischer, Eugen 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2088-1610, Engelhardt, Paul, Lazaridou Chatzigoga, Dimitra and Stanton, Kate Hazel
(2024)
Reasoning with Polysemes: When Default Inferences Beat Contextual Information.
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Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.
UNSPECIFIED, pp. 2907-2914.
ISBN 1069-7977
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Abstract
How, and how strongly, do default comprehension inferences shape verbal reasoning? When do they lead to fallacies? We address these questions for reasoning with polysemous verbs (verbs with distinct, but related senses) and ask when their use leads to fallacies of equivocation. The ‘linguistic salience bias hypothesis’ specifies conditions where subordinate uses of unbalanced polysemes trigger defeasible default inferences that are supported only by the dominant sense but influence further cognition, regardless. But does this happen even where the verb is preceded by disambiguating context that invites subordinate interpretations from the start? We present three experimental-philosophy studies that address this question: We use the psycholinguistic cancellation paradigm and fixation time measurements to examine inferences from polysemous appearance verbs. We find that default inferences can beat even preceding contextual information. Beyond their psycho-linguistic interest, findings have important philosophical consequences.
| Item Type: | Book Section |
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| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Politics, Philosophy, Language and Communication Studies (former - to 2024) Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Psychology |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > UEA Experimental Philosophy Group Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Philosophy Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Wittgenstein |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 20 Jun 2024 13:30 |
| Last Modified: | 25 Sep 2024 10:45 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/95646 |
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