Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Lessons from Sherlock Holmes: Preconceptions and the Blunting of Imagination

Link: Lessons from Sherlock Holmes: Preconceptions and the Blunting of Imagination

Sometimes, the impossible takes place:  Sherlock Holmes makes a mistake. Yes, it happens. The master detective falls prey to some of the very errors he urges us to avoid. If even he falters, what chance do we mere mortals have? Well, for one, we can examine those moments when Holmes does go wrong and see what we can learn from the shortcomings of the normally infallible master–after all, it is often in the very errors and flaws of a process that we are able to discern the most about how something actually functions.




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