By cranking up the difficulty on the test task, researchers found that children are capable of finding systematic solutions ...

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When the results of an experiment appears to disconfirm a hypothesis, how does one know whether it's the hypothesis, or rather some auxiliary hypothesis or assumption, that is at fault? Philosophers' ...

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Programmers might need to 'read' code in programming languages, but it's not the language-processing part of the brain where blood flow increases during the activity. Instead, a group of MIT ...

I'm in a beginning logic class and so far we have learned four rules: Assumption, Modus Pollens, Double Negation and Modus Tollens. I understand everything but Modus Tollens. The other downside is ...