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 ...

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You have probably watched Robert Downey Jr. doing some really impressive mathematical calculations and spinning some shrewd logic to catch some bad guys in Victorian London. That is, if you’ve seen ...

An introduction to the structure of deductive arguments, how to evaluate them, and why a bad argument doesn’t necessarily ...

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, ...