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That's not true, the car is always where my sunglasses are

ngl matte black wallets and phones be hiding from me in the shadows all the time 😔

Sometimes your keys are neither in the house nor in the car....

www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiPe...

I actually keep having the problem where I think "I absolutely brought my thing in from the car, I *remember* bringing it in, where did I put it down???" And then it's always in the car, and I gotta get my shoes on, and go into the garage, and it's a whole thing...

It (wrongly) assumes that you know all the possibilities.

Remember also that Sherlock Holmes was incredibly thorough. It's far less likely that he would have overlooked something, compared to today's pseudo scientists who try to persuade the general population that their non sense idea must be correct.

A: remembered something else you needed to find B: found object was, in fact, not what you remembered/needed C: got distracted and forgot what you were looking for D: all of the above

GNU Terry Pratchett

Pope Pius XII being among those who ignored Wiiliam of Ockham, it seems.

Shh, that's my PIN

it's under a pillow on the couch you've checked four times

Or they no longer exist.

I found my phone in my shoe once.

FINALLY SOMEONE SAYS IT

"eliminated a possibility incorrectly" = number one cause for me "I checked everywhere, even my pockets!" [re-checks pockets] "uh I guess not 😅"

Different Narrator: Except when it wasn't.

My keys are usually in the recycling bin, outside the house. I wish I was kidding.

Nope, someone else must’ve fired those torpedoes.

As an odd and curious child, I read Freud's "Psychopatholgy of Everyday Life" in which he described the very common human mental trick of hiding things from ourselves. I can't say it helped, though; I still do this regularly.

I found it in the car once. ONCE.

Once you eliminate all the scenarios the author thought of you are left with only the remaining scenarios the author thought of.

But this is a fallacy: when Holmes says "when you've eliminated the impossible" it entails actually eliminating the impossible, not that you might have. Doyle's syntactic construction doesn't allow for this "gotcha" because it doesn't follow from the first condition, the impossible being eliminated.

This is gonna be one of those I think about when I make yet another mistake on a logic game

Dirk Gently never eliminated the impossible, saying “the impossible has an integrity that the merely improbable lacks”

And when you've finished searching the car and go back in the house... ...the "thing" IS SITTING SOMEWHERE IN PLAIN SIGHT.

If i gould tag my dad.. Couldnt find the meme i was looking for. So ..spice girls! I guess i could email it from the main website.... No the emails have the alt under the img. I will send the email 🤓

If you haven’t eliminated all possibilites or you’ve overlooked one, then you’re technically still on step one of the rule. It’s not Sherlock’s fault you’re not thorough.