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David Baggett,Philip Tallon

The Philosophy of Sherlock Holmes

  • Sherj Mae Santiagohas quotedlast year
    Nor did Holmes let the intrinsic unlikelihood of some of his inferences deter him, because he realized that life itself invariably includes wild improbabilities however it plays out.
  • Sherj Mae Santiagohas quotedlast year
    he realized that life itself invariably includes wild improbabilities however it plays out.
  • Sherj Mae Santiagohas quotedlast year
    He cared too much about finding the truth to be silenced by the possibility of error.
  • Sherj Mae Santiagohas quotedlast year
    If he didn't err on the side of epistemic humility, at least he didn't fall prey to a debilitating sense of intellectual cowardice and diffidence.
  • Sherj Mae Santiagohas quotedlast year
    Like a good scientist, he put his ideas to the test, weighed them on the scales of balancing probabilities, and observed how well they were able to account for new evidence.
  • Sherj Mae Santiagohas quotedlast year
    Holmes knew when his inferences were possibly wrong, and he didn't stop once he came to his tentative conclusions.
  • Sherj Mae Santiagohas quotedlast year
    Even if Sherlock was mistaken in thinking that modesty required intellectual dishonesty, he made a good point in stressing that it's not necessarily immodest to acknowledge one's own gifts, any more than it would be to acknowledge those of another.
  • Sherj Mae Santiagohas quotedlast year
    “I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues. To the logician all things should be seen exactly as they are, and to underestimate one's self is as much a departure from truth as to exaggerate one's own powers.”
  • Sherj Mae Santiagohas quotedlast year
    “Crime is common. Logic is rare,”
  • Sherj Mae Santiagohas quotedlast year
    should focus more on the logic than the story.
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