# Entertain, then Cancel: How Thinking Makes Reasoning Models Read Some and Or Literally > Source: > Published: 2026-10-22 04:00:12+00:00 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, c