Formal logic helps us build and evaluate rational arguments, which helps us to test claims, explain our reasoning, and keep discussions clear. The first step in learning formal logic is learning about ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a world-renowned AI scientist and consultant. Let’s do a fast test and see. Suppose I tell you that the ...

Required Textbook. E. J. Lemmon, Beginning Logic. ISBN 0915144506. There are many introductory logic textbooks, and we have read dozens of them. After careful thought about which would best serve the ...

Though it may be the particular purview of philosophers and Vulcans, we all use logic to find some semblance of objective truth. Most people like to think of themselves as reasonable beings, so a ...

Required Textbook. E. J. Lemmon, Beginning Logic. ISBN: 0915144506. Available from the U Store among other places. Optional Reading. If you find Lemmon's text to be too terse, then we recommend Paul ...

Mary Broadhurst called me a liar (in the Jan. 8 Southern Maryland News letter to the editor, “Democrats continue to spout their illogical arguments”). I take this very personally. But, setting that ...