We have seen that we can deduce new conditionals from old. But where do we get conditionals to start with? Fortunately, we can get conditionals from our three principles. Premise (5) in the LSAT ...

A therapist sits across from a client who appears highly confident yet unexpectedly describes deep feelings of inadequacy. How does the therapist make sense of this contradiction? Is it a sign of ...

For the “Well, technically ...” crowd— and thank you for your service—machine learning also uses abduction, often called “inference” to the best explanation, which identifies the most plausible cause ...

Inductive marketing uses specific observations about consumers in a given marketplace to create broad advertising campaigns and product/service offerings. This marketing technique uses inductive ...

As your correspondent invites discussion on this subject I hope you will allow me to repeat in a new form the views I expressed upon it in your columns some months ago. I quite agree with Mr. Russel ...

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 ...