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Transitive Inferences A Short Post

Exercise Michael is taller than Jan Jan is shorter than Kelly Dwight is taller than Jan Stanley is shorter than Robert Robert is taller...

What Do You See?

The talent for deduction starts with what you can observe. Now I use the term observation instead of see, because seeing things is sort of p

Building Syllogisms

When building premises this way, try to keep the sets as small as possible.

Observe, Observe, Observe

Here's the thing, if you aren't focusing on the person and the things they are saying, how they are saying it, and the body language they ar

Building Syllogisms

Sometimes when you have large amounts of data, you need to break it up into digestible chunks to manage it better. This often requires you t

Special Knowledge

I am sitting with one of my friends at a coffee shop in San Antonio. The staff are easy going and the coffee is roasted on site. It's one...

4 Tips For Making A Deduction

The obstacles to making good deductions, often involves the ability to capture and store what we see. If we want to think like Sherlock Holm

The Emotional Tails Wags The Rational Dog

When I read this expression I thought, “wow what a tidy way to describe how most of us act”. It is far to easy to allow knee jerk...

Generating A Timeline

In The Adventure of Silver Blaze, Sherlock is on the search for a famous racehorse. He uses context and a timeline to establish the possibil

No. 1 Wednesday Deduction

Here is the challenge: on Wednesday’s I will post a picture. Make a deduction based on the picture. There will be a link to an exercise...

What do you see?

Our ability to extract information from our day to day life is a very powerful tool. But it takes time and effort to do so. In order to make

Defaulting To Untrue

We tend to be less than observant in our day to day lives. One of the ways we can improve this ability is to default things to untrue.

Abstraction & Sherlock Holmes

I am sitting in a coffee shop. I won’t say which one, but I will say that it rhythms with the words “car” and “trucks”. At the table where I

Sherlock & The Art of Deduction

Do you consider yourself and artist? Whether your art was good or not, largely has to do with how much time you spent on the project and how

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