https://www.quotationspage.com/weblog/2006-03-22-criminal-minds-part-2/ A weblog from the web's original quotations site. Fri, 20 Jul 2007 20:00:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 https://www.quotationspage.com/weblog/2006-03-22-criminal-minds-part-2/#comment-44 gio_bleaux Wed, 29 Mar 2006 12:09:49 +0000 http://www.quotationspage.com/weblog/?p=367#comment-44 <p>Your reference to "…when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." as coming from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, (Sherlock Holmes) is not totally correct. Doyle was referring to what is known as Occam's razor, which according to the Wikipedia encyclopedia "is a principle attributed to the 14th-century English logician and Franciscan friar William of Ockham." It goes on to state: "...that the explanation of phenomenon should make as few assumptions as possible, eliminating those that make no difference in the observable predictions of the explantory hypothesis or theory." Or in other words, after you've eliminated everything else, the answer/truth is what remains.</p> Your reference to “…when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.” as coming from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, (Sherlock Holmes) is not totally correct. Doyle was referring to what is known as Occam’s razor, which according to the Wikipedia encyclopedia “is a principle attributed to the 14th-century English logician and Franciscan friar William of Ockham.” It goes on to state: “…that the explanation of phenomenon should make as few assumptions as possible, eliminating those that make no difference in the observable predictions of the explantory hypothesis or theory.” Or in other words, after you’ve eliminated everything else, the answer/truth is what remains.

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