Ignorant Like Sherlock Holmes? December 18, 2012
Posted by TimTheFoolMan in Blogging.Tags: News, Sherlock Holmes
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In “A Study in Scarlet,” Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s fictional detective Sherlock Holmes is intentionally ignorant of basic celestial mechanics (he doesn’t know, or care, that the Earth revolves around the Sun), yet his ignorance is to his detriment in “The Musgrave Ritual.” Watson, his companion, notes that his ignorance of how something works caused him to draw an incorrect conclusion. Lately, I’m starting to favor Holmes’ position more, and Watson’s less.
A Fool and his Words are Soon Parted 