Psychology of Deduction

The first edition of the book was published in 2021.

The Library of Congress Control Number for the book is 2020933224.

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The ISBN for the paperback version of the book is 978-1-5297-0207-1.

John Paul Minda is the author of the book.

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Reprinted editions of the book were published in 2017 and 2019.

The author's children were 12 and 14 when the first edition of the book was written.

Induction is the process of going beyond the given evidence to discover something new via thinking.

Deductive logic starts with specific statements and then proceeds to more general statements.

Categorical induction allows projecting properties observed in one instance to other similar instances.

Induction and deduction are not related in terms of how we use them in everyday thinking.

Using inductive reasoning involves verifying known information rather than discovering something new.

Deductive reasoning focuses on explaining how people make general conclusions.

If a conclusion is valid in deductive logic, it means the conclusion is always true.

Inductive reasoning relies heavily on past experiences to draw conclusions about the future.

In the movie Labyrinth, the young girl's name is Sarah.

The goblin king in the movie Labyrinth is portrayed by David Bowie.

Sarah wishes for a goblin to take her baby brother away in the movie Labyrinth.

In Labyrinth, Sarah can retrieve her baby brother only if she manages to solve a puzzle.

The doors that Sarah encounters in Labyrinth are colored yellow and green.

Each door in the labyrinth in the movie Labyrinth is guarded by a different person.

Logical deduction plays a crucial role in Sarah's journey through the labyrinth in the movie Labyrinth.

Sarah has to make the correct decision between the red and blue doors to proceed in the movie Labyrinth.

Categorical reasoning is also known as classical reasoning.

Inductive reasoning focuses on the actual category membership rather than similarity.

The Knights and Knaves problem involves guards who always lie.

Sarah in the riddle must choose between a red door and a green door.

There is only one correct answer to the Knights and Knaves problem.

The guards in the Knights and Knaves problem have different truth-telling behaviors.

Inductive reasoning involves making conclusions based on category membership.

Sarah's Certain Death Riddle can be found on YouTube under a different title.

The conclusion 'Therefore, some doctors are rich' is valid based on the premises provided.

The overlap between rich people and professional people excludes all doctors in the text.

One of the challenges of deductive logic mentioned in the text is the difficulty in separating truth from validity.

An unsound but valid deduction means that the conclusion directly follows from the premises and is acceptable.

The existence of multiple arrangements that make different predictions regarding the conclusion indicates a valid syllogism according to the text.

It is possible to have a valid argument that is unsound based on the text.

The text suggests that deductive logic allows for easy separation of truth from validity.

In one of the arrangements mentioned in the text, no doctors are classified as rich.