The Sign of the Four¶
Doyle, A. C. (1890). The Sign of the Four.
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Mechanisms¶
- Elimination Decision Log
- The log is the disciplined version of the detective's maxim that once you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains must be the truth — with the crucial caveat that an "impossible" logged at medium confidence is not yet impossible.
This sourceStates Holmes's maxim that after the impossible has been eliminated, what remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
- The log is the disciplined version of the detective's maxim that once you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains must be the truth — with the crucial caveat that an "impossible" logged at medium confidence is not yet impossible.
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