A standard method for refuting a set of claims is to show that it implies a contradiction. Stephen Clark questions this method on the grounds that the Law of Non-Contradiction, together with the other ...

Deepak Chopra's seven spiritual laws actually work for skeptical founders. Here's how to apply pure potentiality, giving, ...

For over 20 years, physicists have had reason to feel envious of certain fictional fish: specifically, the fish inhabiting the fantastic space of M.C. Escher’s Circle Limit III woodcut, which shrink ...

In his new book, Crimes Against Logic (McGraw-Hill), Jamie Whyte attacks the fallacious arguments put forth by politicians, pundits and self-help gurus, among others. Erik Strand spoke to Whyte, ...

We often look on laws as the safeguards of our society. And that they are: The stepping block to challenge our democracy and our freedom. However, sometimes when you put these laws under the ...

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Berkeley, the first city to ban Styrofoam and wood-fired pizza ovens, could become the first to enact Aristotle's ancient law of logic -- that every entity is equal to itself. In a philosophical ...

One reason that some people suppose science and reason are incapable of establishing beyond reasonable doubt that certain supernatural claims are false—for example, that fairies or angels or spirit ...