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Just a quick solo episode this week, with Andrew discussing the importance of open-mindedness and deductive reasoning for serious poker players. Logic puzzles like these can be a fun way to practice.
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Hi,
first of all: thanks for all the great shows! Concerning the last show, I think the title “Deductive Logic” is a misnomer. Deductive Logic deals with logical entailment where a set of premises logically entails a conclusion (in the classical sense) just in case it is impossible that the premises are true but the conclusion false. But no premises about the actions of your opponent entails any non-trivial conclusion about her range in this sense, as you repeatedly emphasize. Rather, the truth of these premises make a certain conclusions about her range more likely to be true. Hence, hand reading involves an exercise in inductive logic rather than in deductive logic. A little more precisely, hand reading involves probabilistic reasoning. It would therefore be interesting whether some theory and practice of probabilistic logic might help us to improve our hand reading.