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, ...

In this paper, two different theoretical problems of induction are delineated. The first problem is addressed; the second problem is deferred to the sequel to this paper. The first problem of ...

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Philosophy of science treats knowledge as ever-evolving, rather than fixed in place. Scientific theories do not need to ...

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 ...

The defendant didn’t tell his side of the story after he was arrested. Innocent people never invoke their Fifth Amendment right to remain silent. Therefore, the defendant is guilty [1]. Source: ...

A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive by John Stuart Mill - is an 1843 book by English philosopher John Stuart Mill. In this work, he formulated the five principles of inductive reasoning ...

The last few decades and the rise of mass media, the choice between two options what I term ‘dichotomies of dualities’ has become the root of news television. The application of this principle has led ...

Inductive proofs; the concept of ‘a posteriori’. Cosmological argument: St Thomas Aquinas’ first Three Ways – (motion or change; cause and effect; contingency and necessity). The Kalam cosmological ...