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 ...
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Inductive vs. Deductive Reasoning
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, ...
A fallacy is some kind of defect in an argument, whether unintended or intended (with the aim to deceive). A formal fallacy is a deductive argument with an invalid form, such as the one above: The ...
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