So the GF is (against my advice) studying CS. While I have an ongoing rant on the Programmer's Symposium, I'm coming here for another battle. She doesn't "believe" inductive proofs. She has just ...

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MIT Press recently published Fundamental Proof Methods in Computer Science, a book by Konstantine Arkoudas and David Musser, a professor emeritus of computer science at the Rensselaer Polytechnic ...

Inductive proofs; the concept of ‘a posteriori’. Cosmological argument: St Thomas Aquinas’ first Three Ways – (motion or change; cause and effect; contingency and necessity). The Kalam cosmological ...