Deduction
Monday, August 15, 2022
Detectives begin work by questioning, “Who did this?” “Who did the killing?” “What was the motive?” To them, deduction is to focus on something specific while at the same time analyzing people, victims, motives, and events.
A DETECTIVE is a modern person. Someone living in the era beyond magical enchantment, in the time Max Weber called Entzauberung der Welt, when belief in magic declines and gods and fairies lose their roles, when natural disasters and murders are no longer treated as ‘mysteries’, but as ‘problems’ to be solved.
But that is also why detective stories (or journalistic accounts about the murder of Brig. J) so fascinate us. De
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