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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

There are many different kinds of reasoning. Some reasoning is by simple association. If you see very dark clouds coming your way, accompanied by lightning and thunder, you will probably conclude that ...

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 ...

You have called reasoning “the core of human thinking”. How do you define it? Reasoning is a systematic mental process in which an individual reaches a conclusion from a starting point that depends on ...

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 ...

The Mathematics Teacher (MT), an official journal of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, is devoted to improving mathematics instruction from grade 8-14 and supporting teacher education ...