• 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Motivated reasoning is the mental process that include mechanisms for accessing, constructing, and evaluating beliefs in response to new information or...
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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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    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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  • 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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  • {\displaystyle P\to R}       (from (3) and (4) by modus ponens) Plausible reasoning Transitive relation Type of syllogism (disjunctive, hypothetical...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  •  141. ISBN 978-0-486-83654-6. Polya, G. (1954). Mathematics and Plausible Reasoning: Induction and analogy in mathematics. Princeton University Press...
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  • in approximate and plausible reasoning”, in: James C. Bezdek, Didier Dubois & Henri Prade (eds.), Fuzzy Sets in Approximate Reasoning and Information Systems...
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  • Collins is recognized for work on intelligent tutoring systems and plausible reasoning. With collaborator Jaime Carbonell, Collins produced the first documented...
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    Borwein, Jonathan; Bailey, David (2008). Mathematics by Experiment: Plausible Reasoning in the 21st Century, 2nd Edition. A.K. Peters. p. 135. ISBN 978-1-56881-442-1...
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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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  • valid for minors, while physical and psychological suffering is plausible reasoning for adults and the "emancipated minors" to pursue end-of-life care...
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  • 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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