Sherlock Holmes, the fictional sleuth who famously resides on Baker Street, is known for his impressive powers of logical reasoning. With a quick visual sweep of a crime scene, he generates hypotheses ...

An introduction to the structure of deductive arguments, how to evaluate them, and why a bad argument doesn’t necessarily ...

The last few decades and the rise of mass media, the choice between two options what I term ‘dichotomies of dualities’ has become the root of news television. The application of this principle has led ...

"I strongly object to wrong arguments on the right side," said GK Chesterton. "I think I object to them more than to the wrong arguments on the wrong side." Arguments are attempts to persuade by ...

Catalog description: Introduction to deductive logic. Topics include: basic concepts of deductive logic; techniques of formal proof in propositional and predicate logic. 3 units. Prerequisites: No ...

Tables of contents for recent issues of Mind are available at http://www3.oup.co.uk/mind/contents . Authorized users may be able to access the full text articles at ...

In an experimental study using 378 eighth-grade students, analyses of variance with the levels of confidence at better than one percent showed that the deductive method was superior to the inductive ...

Aging-US published "Applying deductive reasoning and the principles of particle physics to aging research" which reported that aging research currently lacks a common conceptual framework, and one ...

As this is the fourth edition—though enlarged and partly re-written—of the work under notice, it is not necessary to review it in detail. It is sufficient to mention, by way of reminder, that for the ...