On more than one occasion in the past week alone, I’ve been accused of fallacious reasoning for the use of a reductio ad absurdam. This is a bit of a tricky issue, because a reductio is only useful when someone hasn’t taken into account all of their own premises. What you do is to stress [...]
In several of my recent posts, I laid out my case for how it might not undermine all of economic thinking to find that people aren’t necessarily rational. One of my key points was that you can model irrationality as rationality, but this does raise the question: What good are models in the first place? [...]
In part one of this two-part series, I introduced my thoughts on how logic can be used to extract (but not introduce) information from the premises using 4×4 su doku with no unique solution. In this follow-up post, my intention was to discuss the more subtle forms of information extraction that can be done with [...]
As a follow up to yesterday’s post on intellectual rigor and a precursor to later posts on logical discourse, I think it’s important for me to write a post or two explaining my mental model of what logic does and does not do. Also, I just saw
Physical chemistry Ph.D. student at UC Berkeley and all around curious guy.