A Wonderfully Simple Heuristic to Recognize Charlatans
While we can learn a lot from what successful people do in the mornings, as Nassim Taleb points out, we can learn a lot from what failed people do before breakfast too. Inversion is actually one of the...
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Falsification: How to Destroy Incorrect Ideas
Sir Karl Popper wrote that the nature of scientific thought is that we could never be sure of anything. The only way to test the validity of any theory was to prove it wrong, a process he labeled...
View ArticleThe Uses Of Being Wrong
Confessions of wrongness are the exception not the rule. Daniel Drezner, a professor of international politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, pointing to the...
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Karl Popper on The Line Between Science and Pseudoscience
It’s not immediately clear, to the layman, what the essential difference is between science and something masquerading as science: pseudoscience. The distinction gets at the core of what comprises...
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The Central Mistake of Historicism: Karl Popper on Why Trend is Not Destiny
Philosophy can be a little dry in concept. The word itself conjures up images of thinking about thought, why we exist, and other metaphysical ideas that seem a little divorced from the everyday world....
View ArticleDeductive vs Inductive Reasoning: Make Smarter Arguments, Better Decisions,...
You can’t prove truth, but using deductive and inductive reasoning, you can get close. Learn the difference between the two types of reasoning and how to use them when evaluating facts and arguments....
View ArticleDeductive vs Inductive Reasoning: Make Smarter Arguments, Better Decisions,...
You can’t prove truth, but using deductive and inductive reasoning, you can get close. Learn the difference between the two types of reasoning and how to use them when evaluating facts and arguments....
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