Arguments are sets of statements called premises followed by a conclusion. Arguments are used as a means of rationalizing decision making. It is incumbent upon the populace to evaluate arguments in ...

There is a revolution underway in how people evaluate the scientific merit of psychology studies, and many of the most important reforms have involved paying more attention to statistics. Platt and ...

Vol. 358, No. 1769, Computers, Language and Speech: Formal Theories and Statistical Data (Apr. 15, 2000), pp. 1267-1280 (14 pages) While recent statistical methods for disambiguation in natural ...

Synthese spans the topics of Epistemology, Methodology and Philosophy of Science. Coverage includes the theory of knowledge; general methodological problems of science, of induction and probability, ...

This paper suggests a way forward in the effort to measure statistical capacity building by combining features of two tools – the Project Management System, a logical framework methodology that the ...

In ancient Greece, Aristotle took some important first steps towards systematizing types of arguments where reasoning is perfectly reliable. To give an example: If all philosophers are human and all ...

There is a revolution underway in how people evaluate the scientific merit of psychology studies, and many of the most important reforms have involved paying more attention to statistics. Platt and ...