Like most daunting challenges, the LSAT is best approached by breaking the test down into manageable parts. The most common way to divide the logical reasoning section is by question type. Different ...

John Pollack is a former Presidential Speechwriter. If anyone knows the power of words to move people to action, shape arguments, and persuade, it is he. In Shortcut: How Analogies Reveal Connections, ...

In my view, one of the most vexing of all types of questions used on IQ tests is the one that asks us to complete an analogical formula such as the following one: Bird is to flying as human is to... I ...

When Federal Reserve Chief Ben Bernanke appeared on the TV news show 60 Minutes to persuade us to bail out the banking system, he didn’t bother with charts, figures, or lengthy argument. Instead, he ...

Jamelle Bouie reviewing Markos Moulitsas new book, American Taliban, rejects the notion that Glenn Beck is like the Lich King: Now, it's true that certain tendencies on the American right have ...

When I was young, I was transfixed by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! As I viewed and reviewed the drawings that appeared in the newspaper, I learned about a great many jaw-dropping oddities. But of all ...

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The logical empiricists held that an analogical hypothesis does not gain any acceptability from the analogy on which it is founded. On this view, the acceptability of a hypothesis cannot be discounted ...

A quaint argument now circulating for global-warming preventives creates an analogy with insurance. It goes like this: Although we can't be certain we won't be stricken by disabling disease or run ...

Technology is hard. Valet parking and coat check rooms are not, at least for U.S. Supreme Court justices. So at Tuesday’s oral arguments, opens new tab over the online TV startup Aereo, lawyers for ...