All advertisements aim at persuasion. For example, imagine that Brand X cola claims to be the most refreshing drink. Simply stating this isn't very convincing, so a Brand X advertisement features a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a world-renowned AI scientist and consultant. In today’s column, I continue my ongoing analysis of the ...

My 5-year-old nephew once confidently told me that all dinosaurs were green because his three dinosaur toys were green. So I showed him a nature documentary, Walking with Dinosaurs, and suddenly, ...

A famous logic puzzle involving partial information and deductive reasoning challenges people to determine Cheryl’s birthday ...

Logical consistency is another branch of Deductive Logic. A set of sentences is said to be consistent if and only if there is at least one possible situation in which they are all true. If two ...

Despite being born with infinite potential, our children grow up constrained by a system that promotes mediocrity and conformance. Our children are born with endless potential. It is a crime to limit ...

The last few decades and the rise of mass media, the choice between two options what I term ‘dichotomies of dualities’ has become the root of news television. The application of this principle has led ...