The common test paper of UGC (NET) includes 4 – 6 questions on the understanding of the nature of reasoning. Some questions of Assertion-Reason type are also asked. This portion is meant to test the ...

There is nothing better than deductive reasoning to win a test, belief or an argument. This type of logical argument produce rock-solid conclusions, and not everyone can use it with certainty.

Paradoxes are a special form of reasoning leading to absurd inferences in contrast to logical reasoning that is used to reach valid conclusions. A functional MRI (fMRI) study was conducted to ...

1 Department of International Strategy and Marketing, Amsterdam Business School, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands 2 Department of Philosophy and Moral Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, ...

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 ...

"I strongly object to wrong arguments on the right side," said GK Chesterton. "I think I object to them more than to the wrong arguments on the wrong side." Arguments are attempts to persuade by ...