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 ...

According to a popular interpretation, Carnap’s interpretation of probability had evolved from a logical towards a subjective conception. However Carnap himself insisted that his basic philosophical ...

Inductive logic programming (ILP) and machine learning together represent a powerful synthesis of symbolic reasoning and statistical inference. ILP focuses on deriving interpretable logic rules from ...

To the Editor: The genomics era sprang on much of molecular biology with unexpected force. This era has brought new technologies that have altered the focus of scientific inquiry and potentially the ...

Merriam Webster defines the word logic as “The science of the formal principles of reasoning.” It’s virtually disappeared from the educational landscape and if you try to have a conversation with ...

Part one of this essay was published Thursday., opens new tab This is part two. Sign up here. As the power of the scientific method has encroached further than its applicability warrants into fields ...

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, ...