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The logic question six-year-olds can answer, but leaves adults baffled
A logic puzzle that baffles adults can supposedly be solved by children in seconds.
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Correlation does not imply causation
15 examples of why correlation doesn't imply causation. It is a logical fallacy to equate correlation with causation, to assume that because A and B occur together, A causes B.
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A Quick Puzzle to Test Your Problem Solving
A short game sheds light on government policy, corporate America, and why no one likes to be wrong.
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Gödel and the limits of logic
The man in the photograph looks formal, reserved and somewhat undernourished. His face and his writings are unfamiliar to most, except for a few philosophers and mathematical logicians. He was Kurt Gödel, celebrated for his incompleteness theorems, the implications of which are far-reaching for the foundations of mathematics and computer science.
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How to Solve the Hardest Logic Puzzle Ever
A step-by-step guide to True, False, and Random.
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Why Mars should be independent from Earth
The race to get humans on Mars has begun. SpaceX’s Elon Musk has said he thinks he can get humans to the Red Planet by 2026. Mars One says that its crew will land on Mars just a year later, in 2027. Nasa’s timeline has humans in Mars orbit by 2033, and on the surface of the planet by 2039. The European Space Agency (Esa) is also eyeing a 2033 Mars mission, while China’s space programme is looking at putting people on Mars between 2040 and 2060.
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How Much Power Do You Need To Destroy A Planet?
Being a lifelong Star Wars fan this is a question that's pertinent, Star Wars doesn't care about physics but one of the few places we can invoke real science is in figuring out just how much power it takes to obliterate planets.
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Bayes’s Theorem: What’s the Big Deal?
Bayes’s theorem, touted as a powerful method for generating knowledge, can also be used to promote superstition and pseudoscience. By John Horgan.
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In our opinion: If elected officials were sincere about wanting to help the poor, they would ban lotteries
Whoever might win the Powerball lottery this week, assuming someone draws the right set of numbers, will claim about $1.5 billion before taxes. That’s the equivalent of a year’s worth of work at gross wages of $720,000 per hour. It’s enough, should the winner choose to invest in real estate, to afford to buy all of the residential property in the town of Heber City and have enough left over to buy each and every resident of that city a new car worth $30,000.
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Of Liars and Truth-Tellers
I wanted to talk for a minute about Smullyan’s logic puzzles in order to illustrate a point about religious arguments.
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Physicists demonstrate a quantum Fredkin gate
Researchers from Griffith University and the University of Queensland have overcome one of the key challenges to quantum computing by simplifying a complex quantum logic operation. They demonstrated this by experimentally realising a challenging circuit—the quantum Fredkin gate—for the first time.
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A programming language for living cells
MIT biological engineers have created a programming language that allows them to rapidly design complex, DNA-encoded circuits that give new functions to living cells.
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Western logic has held contradictions as false for centuries. Is that wrong?
Since Aristotle’s Metaphysics, Western philosophers and logicians have with few exceptions viewed contradictions as unacceptable, simply incapable of being true. But certain logical paradoxes demonstrate that some contradictions aren’t so easily dismissed as merely false, an idea that some Eastern philosophical traditions have grappled with more successfully. In this instalment of Aeon In Sight, the US-based British philosopher Graham Priest explains how the Liar Paradox – unresolved since antiquity – upends the traditional Western view that all contradictions must be false.
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Limits of Logic: The Gödel Legacy
Douglas Hofstadter
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The Unexpected Dangers of Recreational Counting
Deciphering mathematical card tricks is a wonderful pastime, but it can get you into some bizarre predicaments. By Jesse Dunietz.
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Three examples of transcendent knowledge
Even though I have been talking about transcendent knowledge in most of my blog posts, the characteristics of that category of knowledge, even its qualification of knowledge, have not been properly discussed up to now. I’ll take three examples of transcendent knowledge and try to better define it through their presentation.
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The rise and fall and rise of logic
Is logical thinking a way to discover or to debate? The answers from philosophy and mathematics define human knowledge. By Catarina Dutilh Novaes.
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The Tyranny of Simple Explanations
The history of science has been distorted by a longstanding conviction that correct theories about nature are always the most elegant ones. By Philip Ball. (Aug. 11, 2016)
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The One Drop Fallacy
Last month, in the process of exploring the awkward fact that most people in today’s industrial world have never learned how to think, I talked at some length about thoughtstoppers: those crisp little words or phrases that combine absurdity and powerful emotions to short-circuit the thinking process... By John Michael Greer.
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Solving the Raven-Paradox and Improving the Way we do Science
Evidence can only ever be gained through experiments and analyses that are most likely to produce results that falsify or cast doubt on the hypothesis being tested. By Rajiv Prabhakar.
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