“Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.” — Sherlock Holmes There is a Rational Wiki article that describes this quote as the “Holmesian Fallacy” — an apparent mistake in reasoning that is destined to lead to spurious conclusions of deduction. It alleges the quote argues that, “when some explanation is believed to be true on the basis that alternate explanations are impossible, yet not all alternate explanations have been ruled out.” The article, somewhat ironically, is but a misunderstanding of the Arthur C. Doyle quote. The Rational Wiki article claims that this quote is a logical fallacy because it is used to justify paranormal explanations for inexplicable data. What the Holmes quote
Great posts. May I ask why there is no comments section for your most recently published post ? I wanted to report a typo: "go out of there way to intentionally contract Covid,"
Great posts. May I ask why there is no comments section for your most recently published post ? I wanted to report a typo: "go out of there way to intentionally contract Covid,"