Sherlock Holmes says, in regard to reasoning, that the difficulty comes in detaching the framework of undeniable fact from the embellishment of hearsay and reporters. I believe what Holmes was trying to explain is how hard it is to differentiate between what is the truth and what is merely believed to be the truth. A friend of mine spent the last eighteen years of his life thinking that the people who raised him were his biological parents, only finding out the truth recently. I had always noticed how he looked a little different from his parents. Their skin was fair while his was a little darker. They had dirty blonde hair while he had black. However, I never thought to question whether or not they were his biological parents. I had just accepted it as the truth, despite all of the clues. I think the same could be said about my friend. They were his parents. They had loved him, raised him, and helped him throughout his life. Why would he ever question what they said was true? Sherlock Holmes uses reason to tear away assumptions and opinions, leaving only the facts and the truth behind. I don’t think this is something that most people could do quite as easily as he does, but then again, that’s the beauty of Sherlock Holmes; he’s fiction.
I agree with you that Sherlock Holmes is fiction and uses reason to tear away assumptions and opinions, leaving only the facts and truth behind. Like you said most people cannot do this as easy as he does because people have a natural sense of using their assumptions, which sometimes can be wrong. We all know that it is not good to base your decisions based on unsupported assumptions, however we still do it without even thinking once about the reality or the truth of the situation. It’s important to slowly cut down on this habit and base your decisions on legitimate truth but not on judging a situation in your own opinion way.
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