We are always solving problems, some of which have instantly obvious solutions and others that do not. In the latter case, the word puzzle comes to mind instead. A problem can be defined therefore as ...
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Vol. 181, No. 2, THE 37TH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE SOCIETY FOR EXACT PHILOSOPHY (SEP 09) (July 2011), pp. 185-208 (24 pages) There are three distinct questions associated with Simpson's paradox, (i) Why ...
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Paradoxes Explained: Philosophy, Science, and Logic

From the mind-bending logic of the liar paradox to the mysteries of time travel and infinity, this video explains the most fascinating paradoxes across philosophy, science, and mathematics all in just ...
We group the existing variants of the familiar set-theoretical and truth-theoretical paradoxes into two classes: connective paradoxes, which can in principle be ascribed to the presence of a ...
At last logic and reason have their own spirit animal. Ravens shed light on weird reasoning, but especially on the random statements that people make on the internet. Is there anything you want more ...
Time travel is deterministic and locally free, a paper says —resolving an age-old paradox. This follows research observing ...