• Mathematics and Plausible Reasoning is a two-volume book by the mathematician George Pólya describing various methods for being a good guesser of new...
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  • Plausible reasoning is a method of deriving new conclusions from given known premises, a method different from the classical syllogistic argumentation...
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    onemathematicalcat.org. Retrieved October 15, 2009. Pólya, G. (1954), Mathematics and Plausible Reasoning, Princeton University Press, hdl:2027/mdp.39015008206248...
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    modus tollens. Deductive reasoning plays a central role in formal logic and mathematics. For non-deductive logical reasoning, the premises make their...
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    (1954), Mathematics and Plausible Reasoning Volume I: Induction and Analogy in Mathematics. George Pólya (1954), Mathematics and Plausible Reasoning Volume...
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  • and mathematics influenced his ideas on the truth and reasoning, causing him to develop a system of general reasoning now used for most mathematical reasoning...
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  • How to solve it Mathematics and Plausible Reasoning The study of heuristics in human decision-making was developed in the 1970s and the 1980s, by the...
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  • doi:10.1007/PL00009307. Polya, G. (1954), Mathematics and Plausible Reasoning: Induction and analogy in mathematics, Princeton University Press, p. 138, ISBN 0-691-02509-6...
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  • Induction and Analogy in Mathematics. Mathematics and plausible reasoning. Vol. 1. Princeton. p. 120. Barbeau, Edward J. (2000). Mathematical fallacies...
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  • This article is concerned with the inductive reasoning other than deductive reasoning (such as mathematical induction), where the conclusion of a deductive...
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  • Borwein, Peter B. Borwein and Simon Plouffe. Borwein, Jonathan; Bailey, David (2004). Mathematics by Experiment: Plausible Reasoning in the 21st Century. A...
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    of the 19th century. Abductive reasoning, unlike deductive reasoning, yields a plausible conclusion but does not definitively verify it. Abductive conclusions...
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    George Pólya (category Mathematics popularizers)
    Strukturen plausibler Folgerung, 2nd edn., ISBN 3-7643-0715-3 (Wissenschaft und Kultur; 15). – English translation: Mathematics and Plausible Reasoning, Princeton...
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    Napkin ring problem (category Japanese mathematics)
    hole. Pólya, George (1990), Mathematics and Plausible Reasoning, Vol. I: Induction and Analogy in Mathematics, Princeton University Press, pp. 191–192...
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    ISBN 978-0-8176-8363-4. Polya, G. (1954). Mathematics and Plausible Reasoning: Induction and analogy in mathematics. Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-02509-6...
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  • Patterns and Symmetry. Dover Publications. p. 141. ISBN 978-0-486-83654-6. Polya, G. (1954). Mathematics and Plausible Reasoning: Induction and analogy...
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  • commonsense reasoning involves plausible reasoning. It requires coming to a reasonable conclusion given what is already known. Plausible reasoning has been...
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    1016/0016-0032(71)90071-8, MR 0290245. Polya, G. (1954), Mathematics and Plausible Reasoning: Induction and analogy in mathematics, Princeton University Press, p. 138, ISBN 0-691-02509-6...
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    Analogy (redirect from Analogical reasoning)
    Holyoak, K.J., and Thagard, P. (1997). The Analogical Mind. Hummel, J.E., and Holyoak, K.J. (2005). Relational Reasoning in a Neurally Plausible Cognitive...
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  • ISBN 978-0-387-78241-6. Polya, G. (1954). Mathematics and Plausible Reasoning: Induction and analogy in mathematics. Princeton University Press. p. 138. ISBN 0-691-02509-6...
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  • general linear recurrence problem. George Pólya writes in Mathematics and plausible reasoning: The name "generating function" is due to Laplace. Yet, without...
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  • μαθηματικά) and means roughly "all things mathematical", although it is plausible that English borrowed only the adjective mathematic(al) and formed the...
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    Nancy Blachman (category Mathematics educators)
    course based on George Polya's Mathematics and Plausible Reasoning. She was also inspired by the mathematics contest produced by Saint Mary's College of...
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  • uncertain reasoning with his publication of the book Probabilistic Reasoning in Intelligent Systems: Networks of Plausible Inference. and Bayesian approaches...
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    jokes attempt a seemingly plausible, but in fact impossible, mathematical operation. For example: Pi goes on and on and on ... And e is just as cursed. I...
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    Fallacy (redirect from Faulty reasoning)
    A fallacy is the use of invalid or otherwise faulty reasoning in the construction of an argument that may appear to be well-reasoned if unnoticed. The...
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    general framework for reasoning with uncertainty, with understood connections to other frameworks such as probability, possibility and imprecise probability...
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    digital computer in the 1940s, a machine based on abstract mathematical reasoning. This device and the ideas behind it inspired scientists to begin discussing...
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  • different, no one would have been around to make observations. Anthropic reasoning has been used to address the question as to why certain measured physical...
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    defined the concept of abductive reasoning, as well as rigorously formulating mathematical induction and deductive reasoning. He was one of the founders of...
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