Saturday, February 11, 2012
Sherlock Holmes
I think that Sherlock Holmes thought that the most difficult part about reasoning was separating the truth from the lies. If deductive reasoning is used, someone can eliminate answers that are not possible or are untrue. Holmes might have thought that it was easier for people to assume what others thought or said instead of looking at the real facts and evidence that was out there. If we all listened to rumors and did not think for ourselves the truth would never be uncovered. Human beings will always lie to cover up any story that affects them. If we do not question what we might think is true then the real truth might always stay hidden. In the case of the “murder” of the Horses trainer, Holmes used deductive reasoning to bring out an unthinkable truth. It turns out that instead of being murdered by someone else; the trainer was killed by his own horse. If Holmes had not thought of all the possible situations that could have happened but didn’t, he would have never gotten to the real truth.
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I completely agree with what you said. People do not always think logically or think out the situation they are in. In most cases we are lied to, even if it is only a white lie, it is still a lie we are made to believe. The news often 'lies' to us every day because they cannot show us everything that is happening in the world due to censoring. It is our job to determine what really happened and what is just being said to us. This does not only apply to the news, it applies to everything, nothing ever comes at face value anymore, we must always determine what is the truth and what is a lie.
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