What’s an Argument?
It’s been a fun break, but it’s time to get back into this. I’ve been doing a lot of thinking, as well as making music, going to a wedding, and working on my thesis. I want to take some time… Continue Reading
It’s been a fun break, but it’s time to get back into this. I’ve been doing a lot of thinking, as well as making music, going to a wedding, and working on my thesis. I want to take some time… Continue Reading
A break from proofs and rules for a note about counterexamples. I’ve talked about them before briefly, but before we go any further, it’s important to talk a bit more about soundness, validity, and counterexamples. Counterexample is one of the… Continue Reading
So now we’ve talked about the prisoner’s dilemma, and how iterated versions of it can change what’s rational to do. But what I didn’t talk about last week was, given an iterated prisoner’s dilemma, what’s the rational thing to do?… Continue Reading
A Lesson in Logic Now you’ve learned all of the rules of inference, and seen some of their applications independently, but arguments in real life are often far more intricate than any single rule. Often things work in conjunction, and… Continue Reading
Now that we’ve covered all of the operators, we can move forward to rules of inference. This is where things start to get awesome. These are full argument constructions whose conclusions necessarily follow from their premises, assuming their premises are… Continue Reading