ABSTRACT
Psychology has various misconceptions about logic which have led to claims that it can be rejected from any use in understanding human reasoning. This is primarily due to the view of logic, that is, classical logic, in the pre-20th-century tradition as a mechanism for all sorts of correct reasoning. However, on a modern view, logics are better thought of as a class of formal models: abstract schemata, which may help us deal with the richness of real-life experience. Many of them are the basis of our newly gained understanding of thought as information processing, which exceeds the bounds of mechanisms by being explicitly concerned with computing meaning in context.
