We often express our thoughts in words to communicate ideas, present arguments or make decisions. But what format and structure do these thoughts take in the brain? In the fields of philosophy, ...

We all have the habit of trying to guess the killer in a movie before the big reveal. That’s us making inferences. It’s what happens when your brain connects the dots without being told everything ...

We use our minds for many different purposes, but the most significant of these is to extend our knowledge and understanding of the world. While there is no precise formula for accomplishing this, it ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information Synthese spans the topics of Epistemology, Methodology and Philosophy of Science. Coverage includes the theory of knowledge; ...

Ernő Téglás, at the Babylab in Budapest, researches “how infants acquire the conceptual sophistication necessary for abstract combinatorial thought involved in everyday reasoning.” His team has just ...

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, ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract We motivate and introduce a new method of abduction, Matrix Abduction, and apply it to modelling the use of non-deductive inferences in the ...