Großartiges Video, sehr hilfreich da dieses Thema Teil meines Prüfungsstoffes ist, vielen Dank dafür! Übrigens chapeau für das freie Sprechen, richtig gut gemacht!
Vielen Dank für das Lob, und willkommen beim Kanal! 🙂 Es gibt übrigens von allen Videos auch eine deutsche Version, auf dem Schwesterkanal Soft Skills deutsch.
Thank you for the video. Tom Scott also did a video on axioms of communication. I've found myself thinking on these kinds of issues when dealing with logic problems. Logic problems often begin with a story. So, people expect the axioms of communication associated with storytelling, and casual/informal communication, to apply. But, the thing about logic puzzles is, any axiom that's not bound in logic... doesn't apply. For instance, it sometimes happens that the description of a logic puzzle has a 'red herring' thrown in - a statement designed to prime your mind into thinking a certain way, or about certain things, that do not actually apply to answering the logical question asked, and lead you astray in your reasoning if you're not careful. The expectation of informal axioms applying in a formal statement of a logic problem makes for people seeing paradoxes where there really are none.
Welcome to the channel! 🙂 Do you refer to riddles such as this one?: "Two fisherman return from the sea. As they tell you, they threw away all those they could catch, and they kept all those the couldn't". They are talking about lice, which is difficult to figure out at first, since you assume that fisherman are talking about fish.
@@SoftSkillsEnglish That's a good one. Part of the controversy surrounding "The Monty Hall Problem", as I see it, is that there are two questions which are very similar, and some people ask one question when they think they're asking another. In particular, in order to reach the conclusion "It is better to switch", a necessary part of the logic is that Monty Hall possesses knowledge, and purposefully *acts* in a particular way based on the knowledge he has. If you're not careful in how the question is precisely worded, though, you can end up asking a question in which Monty has knowledge - but the question does not state that his actions are bound by that knowledge. And other language in what has become the canonical wording of the question written by Craig Whitaker indicates that Monty's action is *not* bound by the knowledge. An axiom of cooperative communication might be that one person doesn't waste another person's time by giving irrelevant details, therefore if the question states that Monty has knowledge, that's only relevant if Monty acts on the knowledge - but if it's not given in the logic puzzle that Monty acts on the knowledge, then it's not a given that you can legitimately use in a proper line of reasoning from stated question to fully-justified correct answer. More recently, "9=90, 8=72, 7=56, 6=42, 3=?". An axiom of communication that a listener might apply is that the speaker is telling a story, and that the order of the sequence matters. The pattern is: multiply by 10, multiply by 9, multiply by 8, multiply by 7... what comes next is multiply by 6. An axiom that a mathematician might apply is that a statement being true (or false or indeterminate) is an inherent property of the statement, immutable, that "8=72" expresses something, the same thing whether it precedes or succeeds "9=90". The pattern a mathematician sees is, "multiply the number by the number one greater", so 3 gets multiplied by 4. Both axioms are valid, and when someone is telling a story, I certainly expect they will tell it in order, but where the two axioms are in conflict, particularly where the language of mathematics is being used, the mathematician's axiom of communication clearly comes in ahead of the story-expecter's.
I understand the second one (I had assumed 3*4, but I see that the unknown rule could also require 3*6). I'm not so sure about Monty Hall, though - if he wouldn't act on his knowledge, he would just select one of the remaining doors randomly, so he might reveal the prize instead of a goat, right? Wouldn't the game be over, then, without a chance of winning?
@@SoftSkillsEnglish Right. It could happen that you go to a game show... and you're not shown three doors, you're shown a large wheel for spinning, with prizes on all the sectors. It could be that you are shown three doors, you you pick one door, and the host says "Let's look at what you've won!", opens your door and you get what you get. The question doesn't say it's against the law that the host should just immediately give you your first choice. Depending on the precise wording used in asking the question, it's not impossible that the host could ppen a door... and we see a car behind it.
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Excellent and clear explanation of the 5 axioms of communication. Thank you so much!!!
Thanks a lot, and welcome to the channel! 🙂
Großartiges Video, sehr hilfreich da dieses Thema Teil meines Prüfungsstoffes ist, vielen Dank dafür! Übrigens chapeau für das freie Sprechen, richtig gut gemacht!
Vielen Dank für das Lob, und willkommen beim Kanal! 🙂
Es gibt übrigens von allen Videos auch eine deutsche Version, auf dem Schwesterkanal Soft Skills deutsch.
😅du bist der beste man!..Am passing my exam tomorrow
Thanks! I hope your exam went well! 😀
I like the way the axioms are been simplified bravo.
Thanks a lot, and welcome to the channel! 🙂
Love from India. Thank you for the wonderful explanation dear sir. Namaste 🙏
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Thanks so much for sharing this 🙏
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Great video. Really interesting. Great explanation and wow ! I think it was a one shot video... really impressive
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The videos are one-shots to keep the editing time low.
Thanks for your video. It helped understanding a few things.
Thanks, I'm glad the video was helpful 🙂
Thank you for the video.
Tom Scott also did a video on axioms of communication. I've found myself thinking on these kinds of issues when dealing with logic problems.
Logic problems often begin with a story. So, people expect the axioms of communication associated with storytelling, and casual/informal communication, to apply. But, the thing about logic puzzles is, any axiom that's not bound in logic... doesn't apply. For instance, it sometimes happens that the description of a logic puzzle has a 'red herring' thrown in - a statement designed to prime your mind into thinking a certain way, or about certain things, that do not actually apply to answering the logical question asked, and lead you astray in your reasoning if you're not careful. The expectation of informal axioms applying in a formal statement of a logic problem makes for people seeing paradoxes where there really are none.
Welcome to the channel! 🙂
Do you refer to riddles such as this one?: "Two fisherman return from the sea. As they tell you, they threw away all those they could catch, and they kept all those the couldn't". They are talking about lice, which is difficult to figure out at first, since you assume that fisherman are talking about fish.
@@SoftSkillsEnglish That's a good one.
Part of the controversy surrounding "The Monty Hall Problem", as I see it, is that there are two questions which are very similar, and some people ask one question when they think they're asking another. In particular, in order to reach the conclusion "It is better to switch", a necessary part of the logic is that Monty Hall possesses knowledge, and purposefully *acts* in a particular way based on the knowledge he has. If you're not careful in how the question is precisely worded, though, you can end up asking a question in which Monty has knowledge - but the question does not state that his actions are bound by that knowledge. And other language in what has become the canonical wording of the question written by Craig Whitaker indicates that Monty's action is *not* bound by the knowledge. An axiom of cooperative communication might be that one person doesn't waste another person's time by giving irrelevant details, therefore if the question states that Monty has knowledge, that's only relevant if Monty acts on the knowledge - but if it's not given in the logic puzzle that Monty acts on the knowledge, then it's not a given that you can legitimately use in a proper line of reasoning from stated question to fully-justified correct answer.
More recently, "9=90, 8=72, 7=56, 6=42, 3=?". An axiom of communication that a listener might apply is that the speaker is telling a story, and that the order of the sequence matters. The pattern is: multiply by 10, multiply by 9, multiply by 8, multiply by 7... what comes next is multiply by 6. An axiom that a mathematician might apply is that a statement being true (or false or indeterminate) is an inherent property of the statement, immutable, that "8=72" expresses something, the same thing whether it precedes or succeeds "9=90". The pattern a mathematician sees is, "multiply the number by the number one greater", so 3 gets multiplied by 4. Both axioms are valid, and when someone is telling a story, I certainly expect they will tell it in order, but where the two axioms are in conflict, particularly where the language of mathematics is being used, the mathematician's axiom of communication clearly comes in ahead of the story-expecter's.
I understand the second one (I had assumed 3*4, but I see that the unknown rule could also require 3*6). I'm not so sure about Monty Hall, though - if he wouldn't act on his knowledge, he would just select one of the remaining doors randomly, so he might reveal the prize instead of a goat, right? Wouldn't the game be over, then, without a chance of winning?
@@SoftSkillsEnglish Right. It could happen that you go to a game show... and you're not shown three doors, you're shown a large wheel for spinning, with prizes on all the sectors. It could be that you are shown three doors, you you pick one door, and the host says "Let's look at what you've won!", opens your door and you get what you get. The question doesn't say it's against the law that the host should just immediately give you your first choice. Depending on the precise wording used in asking the question, it's not impossible that the host could ppen a door... and we see a car behind it.
Ty! This helped me out a lot
I'm glad to hear that! Welcome to the channel 🙂