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 ...

This is a second course in symbolic logic. Our course presupposes you have had a first course in symbolic deductive logic, such as Sac State's PHIL 60, or CSC 28, or you have learned this material on ...

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 ...

Deductive reasoning measures your ability to apply general rules or regulations to specific situations. You will be presented with general fire department rules and regulations and then asked to apply ...

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 ...

We’ve known for a while that bees choose their flowers based on what they see other bees doing. This type of learning by observation is a fairly complex social behavior. So how did bees master it? Now ...

A Dec. 1 Page 1 story makes a frightening assumption regarding tax cuts: “The package offers a tax break just for having children, which should cost the government $85 billion over the next five years ...

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Abductive reasoning, frequently misidentified as deductive reasoning, is ...

My 5-year-old nephew once confidently told me that all dinosaurs were green because his three dinosaur toys were green. So I showed him a nature documentary, Walking with Dinosaurs, and suddenly, ...