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Majid Hasan

Why 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, 2018

Feb 25, 2018

Majid Hasan

What 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, 2017

What Follows from Internally Contradictory Hypotheses?

Aug 27, 2017

Majid Hasan

Insufficiency of Popper’s Deductivism

Popper (Logic of Scientific Discovery, 2002) uses falsification, in contrast to verification, as the criterion for demarcating science and…

Jul 23, 2017

Jul 23, 2017

Majid Hasan

Indeductivism: 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, 2017

Jul 15, 2017

Majid Hasan

What Constitutes (Muslim) Ummah

What binds muslims into a single ummah is not a shared ideology, but a shared language in which ideologies are formulated.

Jun 30, 2017

Jun 30, 2017

Majid Hasan

A Two Dimensional View of the Truth

Accuracy is a measure of probability, which is distinct from frequentist notion of probability, but the two are often conflated in practice…

Apr 30, 2017

Apr 30, 2017

Majid Hasan

The 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, 2017

The Truth of the Conjunction Fallacy: Why Linda Can be More Probable to be Both a Bank Teller and…

Apr 15, 2017

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On Being Mathematically and Rationally Impatient

Why impatience is optimal, and not contradictory, but complimentary, to patience.

Mar 25, 2017

Mar 25, 2017

Majid Hasan

Majid Hasan

Theorist. Human. Entrepreneur. Brown. In that order. Interested in finance, psychology, entrepreneurship, and social justice.

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