For regulars at Ars Technica, the forums are as much a part of the site’s identity as the articles. And where there are forums, there are flame wars. The BattleFront is infamous for its contentious ...

The researchers discovered that this separation proves remarkably clean. In a preprint paper released in late October, they ...

This field of research explores the formal foundations that underlie the reasoning processes of multiple interacting agents. By integrating the principles of epistemic logic with multi-agent systems, ...

The COLA method can help identify whether you're operating on speculation, belief, evidence, or principle—and respond ...

Adopting the scoring values – one to four stars ["★"] – used by Leonard Maltin for assessing films, this textbook in critical thinking earns ★★★½, a scant half-point shy of the highest possible rating ...

LSAT test-takers often complain that the test is too abstract and impractical. Outside of the logic games section, no one will ever make you frantically diagram which of the campers Aaron, Betsy and ...

As AI models evolve beyond mere fact recall, a new generation of reasoning models, such as OpenAI’s o1 and o3-mini, and DeepSeek-R1, is redefining how machines think. Unlike traditional knowledge ...

On Oct. 18, 2023, the Law School Admission Council, known as the LSAC, announced a major change to the LSAT format. The analytical reasoning section, commonly called logic games, will no longer be ...