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The goal of a cognitive theory of modality assignment is to give a general account of the cognitive effects of assigning information to different modalities. This is an ambitious goal, some might say too ambitious, but without some general framework, the multi-disciplinary effort which will undoubtedly be necessary for progress is likely to remain scattered and unrecognised. A more modest aim of this paper is to illustrate how at least the disparate techniques of semantic analysis and experimental psychology are implicated in the development of a general theory.
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Stenning, K., Tobin, R. (1997). Assigning Information to Modalities: Comparing Graphical Treatments of the Syllogism. In: Ejerhed, E., Lindström, S. (eds) Logic, Action and Cognition. Trends in Logic, vol 2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5524-3_10
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