Comments by "hedgehog3180" (@hedgehog3180) on "Sherlock Holmes NEVER 'Deduced' Anything" video.

  1. You also can't wear metal objects while getting an x-ray or being near an MRI machine. So that's another reason why medical professionals or just any scientists might remove their jewlery.
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  2.  @Silkie_Dragon  Hence why almost all good detective stories are set in some sort of location where things can't change like a moving vehicle or a remote mansion. And in a lot of other cases there's some other key limiting factor that narrows down the possibility space.
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  3.  @alexh8754  Are you a bot?
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  4. The methodological flaw with this reasoning is unknown unknowns. Holmes can never ever be certain that he has removed all other possibilities because he cannot ever know that he knows everything pertaining to the case. Like maybe that ring actually had a special coating on the inside that kept it clean that Holmes has never heard about and since he isn't particularly up to date on nanoscience he doesn't even know such a thing could exist.
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  5. Don't they essentially mean the same thing though? What's a case where it'd actually be correct to say “begs the question”?
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  6. Process of elimination is really just a long line of deductive arguments. You're basically going “if not A then B” “not A” “therefore B” a lot of times. The problem just is identifying how large the possibility space is, which in real life is almost always impossible so you have to bring probability into it.
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  7. Archaeology also often borrows methods from the humanities.
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  8. Science isn't just inductive, that's just one half of the scientific process. The other half is the hypothetical-deductive method, you form a hypothesis that is basically a syllogism and then you carry out an experiment based on it, if your predicted conclusion ended up being wrong then you know by inference that one of your premisses must have been wrong. The real clever thing about science is constructing experiments so that you know for sure only one premise can be wrong.
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  9. I think efforts to educate people about the proper meaning of theory have been pretty successful though, like you don't even see creationists saying “it's just a theory” anymore so that has to be a sign of progress.
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  10.  @DMW4  ChatGPT won't always give the exact same answer, also ChatGPT is a hilariously bad source to use.
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