Wait, what?

[taotrooper]

Seen in my Cognitive Science text, at the beginning of the deduction unit:

The victim was stabbed till death at the cinema theater. The suspect was on the train to Edinburgh when the crime occurred. Our deductive system concludes: the suspect is innocent.

Then, at the end of the unit, this jewel of a paragraph.

- Search for models for some conclusions. The murder suspect is guilty. By post-hypnosis suggestion, they managed to get the victim stab himself to death at the appearance of a certain scene in the movie. This model is compatible with the premises.

...But who the fuck came up with that? Conan Edogawa?! Phoenix Wright?!

Comments

[solesakuma]

It sounds inspired by a certain Christie book, but the hypnosis played no part in the theater murder.

[rainmage.livejournal.com]

Is that so? It still sounds like some weird deduction, though.

[solesakuma]

Oh, at the end of that book the whole thing is just typical Family Member Wants Inheritance thing. XP