ABSTRACT
It may seem inevitable that the study of reasoning would lead investigators to consider the applicability of their models and results to an understanding of scientific reasoning; natural though the extension may seem, however, it is only very recently that such concerns have been manifest in the cognitive literature. There has been a long period of neglect, and this seems doubly puzzling when one reflects that science is, in the popular view and in that of most working scientists, the domain of reasoned thought par excellence, challenged in this role only by mathematics and logic itself.
