Your Sherlock Holmes reference reminded me of part of an essay Clay Shirky wrote almost 2 decades ago explaining why he thought the semantic web was ill conceived. (tl;dr Holmes does a kind of eliminative deductive reasoning that simply does not work in practice. Not sure what the analytic philosophers would say, but I'm quite sure there are a lot of relevant connections to make there.) https://www.karmak.org/archive/2004/06/semantic_syllogism.html
Just think like a Bayesian! :)
Your Sherlock Holmes reference reminded me of part of an essay Clay Shirky wrote almost 2 decades ago explaining why he thought the semantic web was ill conceived. (tl;dr Holmes does a kind of eliminative deductive reasoning that simply does not work in practice. Not sure what the analytic philosophers would say, but I'm quite sure there are a lot of relevant connections to make there.) https://www.karmak.org/archive/2004/06/semantic_syllogism.html
So interesting! Hintikka would disagree — he argued that Holmes practiced interrogative logics!