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 ...

All advertisements aim at persuasion. For example, imagine that Brand X cola claims to be the most refreshing drink. Simply stating this isn't very convincing, so a Brand X advertisement features a ...

In the ever-evolving landscape of employment and education, assessments have become a vital component of evaluating a person's cognitive abilities. Among the various types of assessments, inductive ...

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 ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information Synthese spans the topics of Epistemology, Methodology and Philosophy of Science. Coverage includes the theory of knowledge; ...

Event-related potentials (ERPs) provide a window into the temporal dynamics of brain activity during inductive reasoning and categorisation tasks. By recording rapid fluctuations in electrical brain ...

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 ...

Inductive proofs; the concept of ‘a posteriori’. Cosmological argument: St Thomas Aquinas’ first Three Ways – (motion or change; cause and effect; contingency and necessity). The Kalam cosmological ...

To the Editor: The genomics era sprang on much of molecular biology with unexpected force. This era has brought new technologies that have altered the focus of scientific inquiry and potentially the ...

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