Literature Review: Cognitive Science Perspective

Abstract

Though Chapter 2 reviewed different philosophical schools regarding induction and deduction, which were further elaborated in Chapter 3 from a more epistemological perspective, psychology, especially, cognitive psychology may offer a better approach to deductive or inductive ways of thinking than philosophy for the following two reasons:Inductive or deductive thinking may not be at the forefront of the problems addressed by some of the schools of philosophy discussed in Chapter 2. For instance, Plato and Aristotle seek above all to explain the opposition between change and permanence of things (as mentioned in Chapter 2). Idealism does not deal with the opposition of universals and particulars, deduction and induction, but forms part of a higher-level attempt at determining the substance of reality as rational.