Abstract

We offer a formal account of the reasoning structure at certain stages of a particular class of problem-solving processes, by means of Inferential Erotetic Logic. Our ideas are presented on a commonly accepted testbed for erotetic and investigative reasoning, detective stories by Arthur Conan Doyle. We also address the issue of what kind of reasoning is accounted for by our models: our claim is that they capture goal-directed deductions.

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