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A defence of the classical computational account of reasoning against a range of highly influential objections, some of them being not really objections but rather hard research issues.
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Reasoning depends on envisaging the possibilities consistent with the starting point. We construct mental models of each distinct possibility and derive conclusions from them. On this account, reasoning is a simulation of the world fleshed out with our knowledge.
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