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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a world-renowned AI scientist and consultant. In today’s column, I continue my ongoing analysis of the ...

Both teachers taught topics from mod-ern mathematics, but were both teaching modern mathematics? Can a teacher use a modern text and yet fail to accomplish the most important objectives of modern ...

All people are mortal. Socrates is a person. Therefore: Socrates is mortal. This is the classic example of the West’s preferred form of reasoning— deductive logic. We have long professed to prefer it ...

The interaction of two aptitude variables, field independence and general reasoning, with treatments that differed in sequence of instruction was investigated using either an inductive or deductive ...