Majid HasanWhy Can’t “Green Great Dragons” Exist?In a viral tweet I saw a while ago, a BBC editor referenced a screen grab of a book by Mark Forsyth, according to which the order of…Feb 25, 2018Feb 25, 2018
Majid HasanWhat Follows from Internally Contradictory Hypotheses?In Logic of Scientific Discovery (2002), Popper makes an argument against inductive reasoning on the grounds that all statements logically…Aug 27, 2017Aug 27, 2017
Majid HasanInsufficiency of Popper’s DeductivismPopper (Logic of Scientific Discovery, 2002) uses falsification, in contrast to verification, as the criterion for demarcating science and…Jul 23, 2017Jul 23, 2017
Majid HasanIndeductivism: Why the boundary between deductive and inductive reasoning can be too blurred to be…Hume criticised the reliability of inductive reasoning on the grounds that in order to be sure that an inductively deduced universal claim…Jul 15, 2017Jul 15, 2017
Majid HasanWhat Constitutes (Muslim) UmmahWhat binds muslims into a single ummah is not a shared ideology, but a shared language in which ideologies are formulated.Jun 30, 2017Jun 30, 2017
Majid HasanA Two Dimensional View of the TruthAccuracy is a measure of probability, which is distinct from frequentist notion of probability, but the two are often conflated in practice…Apr 30, 2017Apr 30, 2017
Majid HasanThe Truth of the Conjunction Fallacy: Why Linda Can be More Probable to be Both a Bank Teller and…Why truth is fuzzy but the laws of probability are too restrictive for it; why our judgements violate these laws and can still be logical.Apr 15, 2017Apr 15, 2017
Majid HasaninExtra NewsfeedOn Being Mathematically and Rationally ImpatientWhy impatience is optimal, and not contradictory, but complimentary, to patience.Mar 25, 2017Mar 25, 2017