The inverse fallacy and quantum formalism
General Physics
2007-08-23 v1
Abstract
In the present article we consider the inverse fallacy, a well known cognitive heuristic experimentally tested in cognitive science, which occurs for intuitive judgments in situations of bounded rationality. We show that the quantum formalism can be used to describe in a very simple and general way this fallacy within the quantum formalism. Thus we suggest that in cognitive science the formalism of quantum mechanics can be used to describe a quantum regime, the bounded-rationality regime, where the cognitive heuristics are valid.
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@article{arxiv.0708.2972,
title = {The inverse fallacy and quantum formalism},
author = {Riccardo Franco},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0708.2972},
year = {2007}
}
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