Comments by "Rick74" (@rick7424) on "Trope Talk: Detectives" video.

  1. The Sherlock Holmes method or Columbo method is how historians write history. A question gets asked from a point of view. THis questions is asked with a set prupose. We asked more questions based on our information, concepts and our interpertation. Where Sherlock Holmes comes in is the assumptions. He notices something that other detectives have missed, becuase they failed to see it as relevant information. Then he asks a better question. A murder happened at a farm. A man is found dead in the barn. The owner of the farm heard nothing during the night. Sherlock Holmes has an hypothesis and asks a better question: "Did the dog bark?" If the dog of the farm owner barked he must have not known the killer and seen him as an intruder. If the dog did not bark, he must have known the killer. Of course this is also based on a few assumptions. POV, purpose, question, assumption, information, concepts, interpertation and then the implication (which prompts us to ask more and better questions). EInstein's theory of relativity came about, not because of new information, but because he looked at the universe from a different point of view and asked a (radically) new question.
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