This power is what I mean when I talk of reasoning backwards, or analytically. There are few people, however, who, if you told them a result, would be able to evolve from their own inner consciousness what the steps were which led up to that result. They can put those events together in their minds, and argue from them that something will come to pass. Most people, if you describe a train of events to them, will tell you what the result would be. watson, m.d. 'I confess,' said I, 'that I do not quite follow you.' a study in scarlet, part 1 - being a reprint from the reminiscences of john h. There are fifty who can reason synthetically for one who can reason analytically.' In the every-day affairs of life it is more useful to reason forwards, and so the other comes to be neglected. A Study in Scarlet / The Hound of the Baskervilles Arthur Conan Doyle, Greg Spalenka (Illustrator) 4.03 2,774 ratings88 reviews The first story to feature Sherlock Holmes, wherein the detective resolves to solve the mystery of a corpse found at a derelict house with the word 'RACHE' scrawled in blood on the wall beside the body. That is a very useful accomplishment, and a very easy one, but people do not practise it much. In solving a problem of this sort, the grand thing is to be able to reason backwards. 'I have already explained to you that what is out of the common is usually a guide rather than a hindrance.
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