arXiv — cs.AI preprintsInternational16 October 2026
Entertain, then Cancel: How Thinking Makes Reasoning Models Read Some and Or Literally
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arXiv:2610.21204v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: When a speaker says ``some students passed'', listeners infer that not all of them did. Reasoning models now let users decide how long a model thinks before it answers, but we do not know what extra thinking does to such everyday inferences. We study this directly: we keep a model's weights fixed, change only how much it thinks, and record which reading it chooses. A second tool cuts the model's own reasoning at successive points and asks for an answer, showing where the reading changes. Thinking makes models read logical words as logic: it cance
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