Adjectives, comparatives, and syllogisms

Janellen Huttenlocher; E. Tory Higgins; Herbert H. Clark

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Adjectives, comparatives, and syllogisms

Janellen Huttenlocher, E. Tory Higgins, Herbert H. Clark

Columbia Business School

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Attempts to outline a more complete explanation of how people solve ordering syllogisms than that proposed by H. Clark (see pa, vol. 43:12942). The proposal, that people combine information from the 2 syllogistic premises using a strategy which involves spatial imagery is examined. It is concluded that a more complete explanation would include an account of the comprehension of the adjectives and comparative sentences which must be understood to solve the problems, as well as an account of question answering. An evaluation of the relative explanatory value of the spatial imagery proposal as against more abstract formulations is presented. H. Clark presents evidence that J. Huttenlocher and E. Higgins's criticisms and revisions of the linguistic theory and the imagery theory itself are empirically wrong. (34 ref.) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved).

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	487-504
Number of pages	18
Journal	Psychological Review
Volume	78
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1037/h0031858
Publication status	Published - Nov 1971

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