Reed's Ruminations: The Past, Present, and Future
Reflections on science, technology, and computing — leavened by personal experience
Tag: modus ponens
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A Canticle for Reason
N.B. This is an old article, written a decade ago, but shared only informally with a few. In today’s uncertain world, it seems appropriate to share it more widely. The news spread through the community as most things do – a whisper here, a brief allusion there. Everyone seemed to know, but nobody dared talk…
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Just the Facts, Ma’am: Reasoning is Not Dead, Jim
Establishing actual facts (a neologism, for sure) is the essential prerequisite for fact-based reasoning.