Rationally Speaking #117 - Maria Konnikova on How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes
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Conan Doyle's Deduction
Holmes often refers to what he does as deduction. But in fact if you look at what Holmes does it really is deduction or at least it's really deduction by itself. I mean he has a tool box of sort of logical inference and uses whatever it's convenient for the problem. So do you think that that is a reasonable characterization not just of what Holmes does but what more importantly we should be doing in sort of what reasoning about and trying to make inference about real problems?
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