Morelli, Freud and Sherlock Holmes: Clues and Scientific Method*

Morelli, Freud and Sherlock Holmes: clues and scientific method.

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Sherlock Holmes: Father of Scientific Crime and Detection

Sherlock Holmes on Reasoning

1. How I rediscovered Sherlock Holmes It was in the fall of 1987. This year, people all over the world celebrated the Centenary of Sherlock Holmes. Of course I knew who Sherlock Holmes was, since I had read several stories of Holmes during my high school days, and watched some TV programs on Holmes, afterward. But, actually, I did not know Holmes really well, because my memories were rather vag...

Models, Sherlock Holmes and the Emperor Claudius

Recently, a number of authors have suggested that we understand scientific models in the same way as fictional characters, like Sherlock Holmes. The biggest challenge for this approach concerns the ontology of fictional characters. I consider two responses to this challenge, given by Roman Frigg, Ronald Giere and Peter Godfrey-Smith, and argue that neither is successful. I then suggest an alter...

No-leak authentication by the Sherlock Holmes method

We propose a class of authentication schemes that are literally zeroknowledge, as compared to what is formally defined as “zero-knowledge” in cryptographic literature. We call this “no-leak” authentication to distinguish from an established “zero-knowledge” concept. The “no-leak” condition implies “zero-knowledge” (even “perfect zero-knowledge”), but it is actually stronger, as we illustrate by...