Formal logic helps us build and evaluate rational arguments, which helps us to test claims, explain our reasoning, and keep discussions clear. The first step in learning formal logic is learning about ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a world-renowned AI scientist and consultant. Let’s do a fast test and see. Suppose I tell you that the ...

Though it may be the particular purview of philosophers and Vulcans, we all use logic to find some semblance of objective truth. Most people like to think of themselves as reasonable beings, so a ...

Mary Broadhurst called me a liar (in the Jan. 8 Southern Maryland News letter to the editor, “Democrats continue to spout their illogical arguments”). I take this very personally. But, setting that ...