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"However improbable", Sherlock Holmes is often brought up in cases like this...
by rzzzt 7y ago
"However improbable", Sherlock Holmes is often brought up in cases like this...
- stan_rogers 7y agoThat's contingent on eliminating the impossible.
- cameron_b 7y agothe scope of which begs a complete understanding of the possible
- cgriswald 7y agoThat quote always rubs me the wrong way. To reach certainty through deduction you need a closed domain. Assume Holmes is 100% correct about the information he has, and he has three suspects, two of whom he ruled out. Does that mean the third did the deed? No. There may be information Holmes does not have and there is really no way for Holmes to know he does not have that information.
- rzzzt 7y agoHolmes does appear to be operating under the closed-world assumption: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed-world_assumption https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed-world_assumption