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, ...

Hume himself does not use the word "induction". But what has come to be called "the problem of induction" comes down to us from him. What follows is not a detailed analysis of Hume's text. I will ...

Inductive reasoning is a method of accumulating knowledge. By its nature, science must make leaps into the unknown, formulating hypotheses and searching for evidence of their truth. This is called ...

Arguments are attempts to persuade by providing reasons (or premises or propositions) in support of a particular claim (or conclusion). In a deductive or ‘truth-preserving’ argument, the conclusion ...

"I strongly object to wrong arguments on the right side," said GK Chesterton. "I think I object to them more than to the wrong arguments on the wrong side." Arguments are attempts to persuade by ...

Inductive reasoning is a branch of logic. In a valid inductive argument, the conclusion (consequent) is believed to be true on the basis of its antecedents. For example, when all swans are observed to ...