The notion of ‘intuition’ is usually contrasted with rational thought, thus motivating a differentiation between two kinds of processes that are supposed to characterize human thinking, i.e. rational and ‘intuitive’ (immediate and non-argumentative) forms of judgment. Recently, the notion of intuition has also played a leading role in cognitive studies on morality with the rise of so-called soc...

Whatever the nature of reasoning skills, such skills are rare [4], [2]. Thus, it would be desirable to develop support for them and to cultivate and strengthen them through proper education in reasoning. The background for my discussion is the development of support for reasoning skills that our research team has been conducting for some time (www.athenasoft.org). Design of support or education...

Introduction: Clinical reasoning is a vital aspect of physiciancompetence. It has been the subject of academic research fordecades, and various models of clinical reasoning have beenproposed. The aim of the present study was to develop a theoreticalmodel of clinical reasoning.Methods: To conduct our study, we applied the process of theorysynthesis in accordan...

This paper is an essay on metaphilosophy that reviews, describes, categorises, and discusses different ways philosophers have approached the justification of abduction as a mode reasoning arguing. Advocating argumentative approach to abduction, I model philosophical debate over its critical assessment warrant-establishing argument allowing “H explains D” be used reason for can inferred from D.”...

Many human tragedies arise from religious extremism. This paper seeks to explain and provide an argument that the root of problem extremism lies in failure recognize essence religion its equality with humanity itself. In context Islam, through hermeneutics Mulla Shadra this attempts Qur'an, man nature are three aspects a single existential reality. introduction brought all peak their sacred per...

CRRAR Surely one of the most important contributions of Trevor Bench-Capon to computer science, and especially to artificial intelligence and law, and for that matter to argumentation theory and cognitive science generally, is the model of value-based practical reasoning he has given us. He introduced value-based argumentation frameworks (VAF's) in (Bench-Capon, 2002; Bench-Capon, 2002a; Bench-...

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) has become the model disease for the whole dementia syndrome with predominant memory deficits (World Health Organization, 1994). Other forms of neurodegenerative dementias – dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) and frontotemporal degeneration (FTD) – are characterized by different patterns of neuropsychological performance and behavioral disturbances (Neary et al., 1998; McK...

For the first time, translation (from ancient Greek and Latin) into Ukrainian of entire body reasoning fragments available today, which are attributed to outstanding early philosopher Anacharsis Scythia (VIII-VI centuries BC), is presented. It was found that majority apophthegms built according principle antithesis: in order for a thought arise, thinker needs move away from opponent's thought, ...

Without imagination-without an actively cultivated imagination-not only do health care workers themselves suffer, but so too do their patients, argues Dr Anne Scott in this issue of the journal.' 2 Why? Because only by being able to imagine what it is like to be the other person, the patient, only by being able to enter imaginatively into the world of the patient, is the health care professiona...