In this week's installment of our series on LSAT basics, I'll discuss the major question types in the logical reasoning section of the test. These question types alone constitute more than half of all ...

Sherlock Holmes, the fictional sleuth who famously resides on Baker Street, is known for his impressive powers of logical reasoning. With a quick visual sweep of a crime scene, he generates hypotheses ...

Have you ever felt like walking outside would be dangerous so you decide to stay in? Or, have you ever thought that a friend who hasn’t texted you has suddenly stopped liking you, when in reality they ...

Over the past several months I took a break from writing to start providing “Not Guilty By Reason Of Insanity” evaluations in a neighboring state. Doing this led me to realize that many people ...

In Arthur Conan Doyle’s short story Silver Blaze, Sherlock Holmes is able to uncover the theft of a famous race horse by quickly grasping the significance of no one hearing the family dog barking the ...

Analogies are a mainstay of human communication and reasoning. We know instantly what it means to say that “Bing Cosby has a velvet voice” or that someone is “as annoying as fingernails on a ...

When ChatGPT first appeared in late 2022, it could charm us with words but stumbled with numbers. It could draft a sonnet in the style of Shakespeare but might guess wildly if asked to multiply 17 by ...

My 5-year-old nephew once confidently told me that all dinosaurs were green because his three dinosaur toys were green. So I showed him a nature documentary, Walking with Dinosaurs, and suddenly, ...