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 ...

According to a popular interpretation, Carnap’s interpretation of probability had evolved from a logical towards a subjective conception. However Carnap himself insisted that his basic philosophical ...

Inductive logic programming (ILP) and machine learning together represent a powerful synthesis of symbolic reasoning and statistical inference. ILP focuses on deriving interpretable logic rules from ...

The Journal of Philosophical Logic provides a forum for work at the crossroads of philosophy and logic, old and new, with contributions ranging from conceptual to technical. Accordingly, the Journal ...

To the Editor: The genomics era sprang on much of molecular biology with unexpected force. This era has brought new technologies that have altered the focus of scientific inquiry and potentially the ...

Scientists do not confirm hypotheses, they may only corroborate or decisively refute them. —excerpted from The Logic of Scientific discovery (London: Hutchinson, 1959) by Karl Popper A scientist, ...

There is an interesting saying: “Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.” Benjamin Bloom, an American educational psychologist, and many others in the educational ...