In the story Silver Blaze I think when Sherlock Holmes said,
“When it comes to the art of reasoning, many people rely on opinion and
unsupported assumptions. The difficulty, he maintains, is to detach the
framework of undeniable fact from the embellishments or hearsay and reporters”,
he meant that many people do not always rely of proven facts, and they believe
what they want to believe. I think that people want to be right when arguing
with somebody so they will use information to prove their point, even if that
information may be flawed. Holmes
statement is proven when one of my friends’ boyfriends blamed her of cheating. My
friend hadn’t cheated; she had just made a new friend at school. Her boyfriend
however said the new friend liked his girlfriend and would make her cheat. Her
boyfriend did not know this new friend but assumed the friend was going to be
bad, when in fact the friend really just wanted to be friends. Her boyfriend
had assumed the worst and used flawed information to make his conclusion.
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