In Book IV (On method) of his Institutio Logica, Pierre Gassendi proposes an unusual venue for probable and nondeductive inference in empirical reasoning: demonstrative syllogism. Thus, in 'resolution ...

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, ...

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Educating humanity is a big task for philosophy which should stand as a guiding idea behind all philosophical activities. In epistemology and in the philosophy of science the idea would be served by ...

Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR&R) encompasses the design of formal models and inference mechanisms to capture, organise and derive new insights from structured, semi-structured or ...

Human infants are capable of deductive problem solving as early as 10 months of age, a new study by psychologists at Emory University and Bucknell finds. The journal Developmental Science is ...

Automated reasoning is the area of computer science concerned with applying reasoning in the form of logic to computing systems. If given a set of assumptions and a goal, an automated reasoning system ...