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Old Fri Dec 18, 2009, 01:07pm
mbyron mbyron is offline
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Originally Posted by 26 Year Gap View Post
It was the deduction that was brilliant.
Wanna hear something funny? Holmes rarely uses deduction: Conan Doyle routinely has him call his inferences deductions, when they are in fact inferences to the best explanation (which are inductive). A most un-Holmesian mistake.

Well it's funny to some people.
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