Human versus Logical Reasoning
For the tutorial we would like you to think of 3 examples
where human
reasoning does not match logical reasoning, or where common beliefs
about physics (i.e. naive physics), or other sciences, does not match
the theoretical predictions of science, and be prepared to discuss
these in the tutorial.
One example is: consider the proposition 'if it is raining then people
take umbrellas'. Logically this implies: 'if I do not see umbrellas
then it is not raining'. It is common to infer from this: 'if I see
umbrellas it must be raining' - which is faulty logic. What else
would you need to know to fix this?
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