In all introductory courses on logic, students are taught the syllogism, a short logical argument of three lines that contains a major premise, a minor
Category: Act I: Philosophical Misadventures
The Fallacy of the Prisoners’ Dilemma
The prisoners’ dilemma, based on a paper written by Merrill Flood and Melvin Dresher in 1950, has become the paradigmatic example of game theory, which
To See Patterns Where None Exist
Most people are able to make the distinction between things that exist in the real world and things that are only imagined or are due
The Fallibility of Human Logic
Ever since a tiny number of ancient Greeks discovered and developed something called logic, there are many people who, greatly impressed by this discovery, have
The Use of the Word “Universal” is not Universal: The Naive Human Belief in Universality
Human beings have a monopoly on speech in the world we live in. Because our occasionally outlandish and, if we were only able to recognize
What Does a Bee Look Like to a Bee? The Perceptual Multiverse
In reply to the question posed in the title, most people would say that when a bee looks at another bee, or if it were
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