Chapter 35 – Categorization, Reasoning, and Memory From a Neo-Logical Point of View

This chapter studies how we build categories through creative inferences, like analogies, inductions, and abductions. Then it compares the cognitive functions of these inferences with those of logical inferences. It also presents fallacies as creative inferences that are inappropriate strategies in the context of logical reasoning. Finally, it introduces at third class of inferences, corrective inferences, those that are responsible for learning and dynamic changes in our process of categorization.