Joy of Logic
Professor Dave Cliff takes viewers away from "fake news" and on an intellectual journey through philosophy, math, science, and technology. What all of these domains have in common is that they run on logic, the universality of truths and falsehoods. From Aristotle to Alice in Wonderland, sci-fi to supercomputers, this is the fascinating story of certainty and the fundamentals of reasoning itself.
Professor Dave Cliff takes viewers away from "fake news" and on an intellectual journey through philosophy, math, science, and technology. What all of these domains have in common is that they run on logic, the universality of truths and falsehoods. From Aristotle to Alice in Wonderland, sci-fi to supercomputers, this is the fascinating story of certainty and the fundamentals of reasoning itself.
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