“How did you know that, Holmes?”. Inferential Erotetic Logic in Formal Modelling of Problem-Solving in Criminal Investigations by Sherlock Holmes
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https://doi.org/10.12775/RF.2019.021Keywords
Inferential Erotetic Logic, Erotetic Search Scenarios, goal-directed deduction, investigative reasoning, detective stories, Sherlock HolmesAbstract
We offer a formal account of the reasoning structure at certain stages of a particular class of problem-solving processes, by means of Inferential Erotetic Logic. Our ideas are presented on a commonly accepted testbed for erotetic and investigative reasoning, detective stories by Arthur Conan Doyle. We also address the issue of what kind of reasoning is accounted for by our models: our claim is that they capture goal-directed deductions.
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