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Tweet"'The ideal reasoner,' he remarked, 'would, when he had once been shown a single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which would follow from it.'"
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Originally Published Jan. 1, 1892
Digital edition:
356 pages - March 1, 1999