Mathematics and Plausible Reasoning is a two-volume book by the mathematician George Pólya describing various methods for being a good guesser of new...
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Plausible reasoning is a method of deriving new conclusions from given known premises, a method different from the classical syllogistic argumentation...
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commonsense reasoning involves plausible reasoning. It requires coming to a reasonable conclusion given what is already known. Plausible reasoning has been...
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the latter half of the 19th century. Abductive reasoning, unlike deductive reasoning, yields a plausible conclusion but does not definitively verify it...
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Inductive reasoning refers to a variety of methods of reasoning in which the conclusion of an argument is supported not with deductive certainty, but...
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of non-deductive reasoning, abduction does not guarantee the truth of the conclusion even if the premises are true. The more plausible the explanation...
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Alan Hodgkin Andrew Huxley Meno How to solve it Mathematics and Plausible Reasoning The study of heuristics in human decision-making was developed in...
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Borwein, Jonathan; Bailey, David (2004). Mathematics by Experiment: Plausible Reasoning in the 21st Century. A.K. Peters. pp. vii. ISBN 978-1-56881-211-3...
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Mathematics and Plausible Reasoning Volume I: Induction and Analogy in Mathematics. George Pólya (1954), Mathematics and Plausible Reasoning Volume II: Patterns...
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Deductive reasoning is the process of drawing valid inferences. An inference is valid if its conclusion follows logically from its premises, meaning that...
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Motivated reasoning is the mental process that includes mechanisms for accessing, constructing, and evaluating beliefs in response to new information...
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Solve It, Mathematics and Plausible Reasoning (Volume I: Induction and Analogy in Mathematics, and Volume II: Patterns of Plausible Inference), and Mathematical...
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consequent Modus ponens Modus tollens Necessity and sufficiency Plausible reasoning Matthew C. Harris. "Denying the antecedent". Khan Academy. Turing...
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org. Retrieved October 15, 2009. Pólya, G. (1954), Mathematics and Plausible Reasoning, Princeton University Press, hdl:2027/mdp.39015008206248, ISBN 9780691080055...
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linear recurrence problem. George Pólya writes in Mathematics and plausible reasoning: The name "generating function" is due to Laplace. Yet, without giving...
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Univ. Press, Cambridge Jaynes, E. T., 1988, `How Does the Brain Do Plausible Reasoning?', in Maximum-Entropy and Bayesian Methods in Science and Engineering...
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{\displaystyle P\to R} (from (3) and (4) by modus ponens) Plausible reasoning Transitive relation Type of syllogism (disjunctive, hypothetical...
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George (1954). Induction and Analogy in Mathematics. Mathematics and plausible reasoning. Vol. 1. Princeton. p. 120. Barbeau, Edward J. (2000). Mathematical...
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anticipate Pólya's later works on that subject (Mathematics and Plausible Reasoning, How to Solve It).: 23–24 The pair held practice sessions, in which...
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Moral reasoning is the study of how people think about right and wrong and how they acquire and apply moral rules. It is a subdiscipline of moral psychology...
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Trigonometry, A. S. Barnes & Co., p. 175 Polya, G. (1954), Mathematics and Plausible Reasoning: Induction and analogy in mathematics, Princeton University Press...
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purported assignations, others Sandhaus independently confirmed or found plausible, reasoning that Backhouse spoke Chinese, Manchu, and Mongolian (the languages...
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purported assignations, others Sandhaus independently confirmed or found plausible, reasoning that Backhouse spoke Chinese, Manchu, and Mongolian (the languages...
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to the length of the hole. Pólya, George (1990), Mathematics and Plausible Reasoning, Vol. I: Induction and Analogy in Mathematics, Princeton University...
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1016/0016-0032(71)90071-8, MR 0290245. Polya, G. (1954), Mathematics and Plausible Reasoning: Induction and analogy in mathematics, Princeton University Press...
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Jonathan M. & Bailey, David H. (2004) Mathematics by Experiment: Plausible Reasoning in the 21st Century Massachusetts: A K Peters, Ltd. ISBN 1-56881-211-6...
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existing biological and medical knowledge. Biological plausibility is one component of a method of reasoning that can establish a cause-and-effect relationship...
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Borwein, J. M.; Bailey, D. H. (2003). Mathematics by experiment : plausible reasoning in the 21st century (1st ed.). Wellesley, MA: A K Peters. OCLC 1064987843...
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2024-10-27. Borwein, J.; Bailey, D. (2004). Mathematics by Experiment: Plausible Reasoning in the 21st Century. Wellesley, MA: A K Peters. p. 137. ISBN 1-56881-211-6...
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Prompt engineering (redirect from Chain-of-thought reasoning)
chain-of-thought prompting improves reasoning ability by inducing the model to answer a multi-step problem with steps of reasoning that mimic a train of thought...
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