The Hound of the Baskervilles

Stapleton basically plans to inherit the fortune and for Holmes this is an important clue because there is motive. He has received a letter, posted the evening before and obviously written by a common person In this situation Holmes also relies on his inductive reasoning where arrives at a conclusion based on a set of observations. Sir Henry has a small mystery for Holmes. But how did Holmes know that it’s Watson inside the hut. In order to make the above observations he relied on his experience and knowledge. Holmes also uses his inductive reasoning to observe the portrait of Hugo Baskerville and noticing that Hugo looks like Stapleton. In this case Sherlock Holmes is using his inductive reasoning in order to offer theory as to the origin of the walking stick. Furthermore, conclusions arrived at by inductive reasoning do not necessarily have the same validity as the initial assumptions. It illustrates that inductive reasoning is the method of drawing conclusions based upon a limited set of observations.