Miss Bennet seemed a touch subdued, at the start of class. She had been male yesterday. It had been terribly jarring, especially when she realized she would not be able to pass the entire day without using the facilities. Students were advised not to inquire as to that particular matter.

( Logical Fallacies, Part Two )

( Logical Fallacies, Part One )

When the students filed into class today, they might notice that each desk had a sheet of paper, face down.

( The Forer Effect )

When all of her students had filed in, Miss Bennet shut the door. "Welcome," she said, "to Logic, Reason, and Critical Thinking, which is quite the lofty title, I confess. It is my hope that class will live up to that ideal, but I do hope you will bear with your humble instructor as we fall short of perfection."

( Self-Deception )

Mohinder was bouncing up and down on his heels as he waited for the workshop students to arrive. "As I hope you've learnt by now, logic and reason is not are useful but not infalliable tools in your armoury. There are times when people rely on gut feelings, trust their intuition or simply make a leap of faith ( Read more... )

"If you're looking to win an argument, it helps not to be factually wrong. Particulary about something easily disproven," Mohinder began. "Your completely valid argument about penguin habitats will be really undermined if start off by saying they can fly."

"So," he said, handing out papers. "First of all you need to be sure of what saying. ( Read more... )

"Good afternoon, everyone," Mohinder started, his French just a little rusty. "If everyone will take a seat we can start to talk about encryption."

Switching back into English he began passing round handouts. "Not that one language truely counts as an encryption of another. One language may have words that lack meaning or nuance in translation and ( Read more... )

Mohinder was standing at the front of the classroom by the time the workshop had assembled. Written on the board behind him was 'Theory -> Hypothesis -> Observation -> Confirmation'

"We're looking at deductive reasoning this week," he said, passing out notes as he did so. "Where the conclusion of an argument is necessary - or has to follow from ( Read more... )

Small desks were scattered throughout the classroom when the students arrived. On the desks were a checkered board, a stopclock, two closed boxes and two handouts"Computer programming is heavily logic based," said Mohinder. "Some of the earliest programs were written to simulate already existing games. The first chess-playing software was written ( Read more... )

Mohinder was standing at the front of the classroom, as he passed out a few handouts."Alright," he started. "One of the first points to winning your arguments is to make sure your opponent has the same frame of reference you do. If your company is 50 billion in debt you need to know if that's a million million or thousand million Australian, ( Read more... )