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 ...

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 ...

There is an interesting saying: “Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.” Benjamin Bloom, an American educational psychologist, and many others in the educational ...

All people are mortal. Socrates is a person. Therefore: Socrates is mortal. This is the classic example of the West’s preferred form of reasoning— deductive logic. We have long professed to prefer it ...

Do you think of yourself as a rational thinker? Take pride in your ability to draw logical conclusions from premises and data? Think people who use dietary supplements and male enhancement products ...

This research is part of a larger effort to build machine-based tools for developing scientific theories. In analogy with the research process in empirical research, we describe a logical cycle of ...

Merriam Webster defines the word logic as “The science of the formal principles of reasoning.” It’s virtually disappeared from the educational landscape and if you try to have a conversation with ...