Sherlock Holmes: Logician or Theseologist? I propose to devote my declining years to the composition of a textbook which shal focus the whole art of detection into one volume. —Sherlock Holmes in The Adventure of the Abbey Grange He is a Logician A logician studies the way we ought to reason; she is interested in the distinction between corect reasoning and incorect reasoning. Although we al reason and are often interested in whether our reasoning is valid we are not a l logicians because
closer to 60. In terms of their living habits, Quixote and Holmes differ somewhat. Holmes is described as having bohemian (informal/unconventional) habits. This does make him sometimes difficult to live with at times. Watson says in the Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual that “Although in his methods of thought he was the neatest and most methodical of mankind, he was none the less in his personal habits one of the most untidy men that ever drove a fellow-lodger to distraction9.” Despite this critical
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle utilizes literary elements such as dialogue, tone, vocabulary, a different format of narration and perspective, metafictional techniques, along with chronology to construct the adventures of the famous fictional British detective Sherlock Holmes and his partner, John Watson. The creative use of dialogue assists in telling the story fluently and vividly. Following the dialogue, incorporating such a suspenseful and occasionally humorous tone upon the mysteries maintains interest