2016
DOI: 10.1387/theoria.13959
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On the consistency of Sherlock Holmes’ old maxim: A logical and neurocomputational approach

Abstract: Natural languages can express some logical propositions that humans are able to understand. We illustrate this fact with a famous text that Conan Doyle attributed to Holmes: "It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth". This is a subtle logical statement usually felt as an evident truth. The problem we are trying to solve is the cognitive reason for such a feeling. We postulate here that we accept Holmes' maxim as true because … Show more

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