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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...