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Fri Dec 18, 2009, 01:07pm

mbyron

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Quote:

Originally Posted by 26 Year Gap

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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