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--- abstract: |+ In this article the role of pragmatic knowledge in conditional reasoning was investigated. We explored the importance of: a) probability of empirical ocurrence expressed in the conditional sentences (deterministic, probablisistic or without relation, b) availability of the scenarios of daily life (available vs. non available professions), c) congruence or non-congruence of the narrative texts and d) type of conditional rule (Modus Ponens, Modus tollens, Affirmation of the Consequent and Denial of the Antecedent). The results showed the importance of the relation between the antecedent and consequent and the congruence of the texts on the inferences. Theses results are consistent with our previous experimental results in the investigations about a) syllogistic reasoning with probabilistic quantifiers either a non-contextual mode or in the context of narrative texts (Vali�a 1988; Vali�a & De Vega, 1988), b)conditional reasoning task (formal vs. thematic content)(Seoane & Vali�a, 1988; Vali�a & cols. 1992 a, b) and reasoning with conditional sentences included in the narrative texts (Mart�n,Vali�a, Seoane & Ferraces, 1997) and c) the Wason's selection task (Seoane, Vali�a, Ferraces & Mart�n, 1997; Vali�a, Seoane, Ferraces & Mart�n, 1995). The results are consistent with the notion of mental scenario in human reasoning. They do not support the theories based on formal rules or current competence models and are better explained by the Mental Models Theory . altloc: [] chapter: ~ commentary: ~ commref: ~ confdates: August 7-10 conference: Nineteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society confloc: Stanford University contact_email: ~ creators_id: [] creators_name: - family: Vali�a given: M� Dolores honourific: '' lineage: '' - family: Seoane given: Gloria honourific: '' lineage: '' - family: Ferraces given: M� Jos� honourific: '' lineage: '' - family: Mart�n given: Montserrat honourific: '' lineage: '' date: 1997 date_type: published datestamp: 2001-07-24 department: ~ dir: disk0/00/00/17/14 edit_lock_since: ~ edit_lock_until: ~ edit_lock_user: ~ editors_id: [] editors_name: - family: ' Shafto' given: Michael G. honourific: '' lineage: '' - family: Langley given: Pat honourific: '' lineage: '' eprint_status: archive eprintid: 1714 fileinfo: /style/images/fileicons/application_pdf.png;/1714/1/Vali%C3%B1a%26cols8.PDF full_text_status: public importid: ~ institution: ~ isbn: ~ ispublished: pub issn: ~ item_issues_comment: [] item_issues_count: 0 item_issues_description: [] item_issues_id: [] item_issues_reported_by: [] item_issues_resolved_by: [] item_issues_status: [] item_issues_timestamp: [] item_issues_type: [] keywords: Reasoning; Deductive Reasoning; Pragmatic Reasoning; Content effect; Scenario effect; Empirical relation; narrative texts lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:54:45 latitude: ~ longitude: ~ metadata_visibility: show note: ~ number: ~ pagerange: 1076 pubdom: FALSE publication: ~ publisher: 'Lawrence Erlbaum associates, LEA, N.J.' refereed: TRUE referencetext: ~ relation_type: [] relation_uri: [] reportno: ~ rev_number: 8 series: ~ source: ~ status_changed: 2007-09-12 16:39:50 subjects: - cog-psy succeeds: ~ suggestions: ~ sword_depositor: ~ sword_slug: ~ thesistype: ~ title: Pragmatic factors in Conditional Reasoning with narrative texts type: confpaper userid: 1781 volume: ~