The Abduction of Sherlock Holmes
@article{Carson2009TheAO, title={The Abduction of Sherlock Holmes}, author={David Carson}, journal={International Journal of Police Science \& Management}, year={2009}, volume={11}, pages={193 - 202} }
All criminal investigations, and resulting trials, rely upon inferential reasoning. Theories, hypotheses and conclusions, are drawn from the evidence. The victim's blood was on the knife; we infer it was the murder weapon. The suspect's fingerprints are on the knife; we infer he killed the victim. Sherlock Holmes, although a fictional character, remains renowned as a great detective. However, his methodology, which was abduction rather than deduction, and which is innocently used by many real…
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