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 ...

Catalog description: Introduction to deductive logic. Topics include: basic concepts of deductive logic; techniques of formal proof in propositional and predicate logic. 3 units. Prerequisites: No ...

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We often express our thoughts in words to communicate ideas, present arguments or make decisions. But what format and structure do these thoughts take in the brain? In the fields of philosophy, ...

1. What is the nomothetic-deductive approach to research? The nomothetic-deductive method is the one that is used by researchers who want to learn something about social regularities — things that ...

Many think that blind tasting of wine is a parlor trick or a fraud. A few years ago, I spent two days in an auditorium with 90 or so of the best brightest aspiring sommeliers in this region. We tasted ...

A variety of universal algebras is called deductive if every subquasi-variety is a variety. The following results are obtained: (1) The variety of modules of an Artinian ring is deductive if and only ...

IN the few remarks which I communicated to this journal (vol. xxvii. p. 554) under the above heading, I protested against the deductive method used in a purely literary manner as a mischievous way of ...