I've already did an entry on this in the past but it way too shallow. I wasn;t able to relly reflect on the structute of both characters I mentioned. These 2 characters are way different from each other, but have a surprising lot in common.
Introducing: Sherlock Holmes
Since he appeared out of thin air in the study of scarlet, he has been a pioneer of deduction in pop culture with over 200 actors having portrayed him. When someone asks a normie to name a deductionist They will either ask what deduction is, or say Sherlock Holmes. Holmes is a keen observer of such small details, and a really quick thinker. A lot of videos on youtube on the topic of deduction are titled something like: "How to think like Sherlock Holmes" and not "How to deduce". This is understandable, because everyone knows Sherlock Holmes, but very few know about deduction except the tax meaning. What I'm trying to say is that Sherlock, the deerhunter hat and the pipe, is deduction in the normal people's eyes.
Sherlock Holmes' deductions are very sharp and detail oriented. I believe this is dubbed as "Sherlockian deduction". Deduces like a machine, IS a machine. Doesn't feel emotion, thus can't understand the concept and how it drives people. He mainly focuses on the physicality and attire side of deductions. He has sociopathic tendencies and is a cocaine addict, because genius has a price just like in "The Queen's gambit".
Introducing: Patrick Jane
Now, I've talked about this gentleman in many of my entries, he's my face and my role model. I adore him, without a question.
The most interesting side of Jane is his morality. His morality and philosophy is wery grey and is frequently touched on in the series. "I don't care about the law, I care about justice." attitude is very intriguing. It's very vigilant. Everyone has a sense of justice, a feeling of right and wrong. Just like the trolley problem. The thing is that justice more often than not, collides with The LAW.
The thing with Patrick is, that he can't be sociopathic, because he knows how to act with people, how they work and think, hell he is a master of knowing and studying people. That leaves us with psychopathic. I believe that word has gained a very overused and negative meaning. I don't think the mental illness in itself is bad. I only think the people that killed because of it are menaces.
Patrick is a master of cold-reading and people and can use people like puppets. His observation skills are most impressive and often using just plain logical reasoning to solve soething or gain information. He uses this plain logical reasoning very effectively and the most. He is a master of body language and microexpressions ( thus the cold-reading skills) he doesn't have the weakpoint of people and feeling stopping him and we can see that he's very good at noticing and using smaller clues. He keeps up a very good facade, like a true mentalist would so we can't exactly pinpoint where he was just being slick, and where he was actually making brilliant deductions.
Conclusion/ Comparison
Both Sherlock and Jane are perfect on their respactive fields and both have a mental illness contributing to high intelligence. Both of them are keen observers and can notice clues that often slip when looking at with the human eye. Sherlock has the downside of not knowing people in his deductions, whilst patrick knows them perfectly. I think this is the main thing differentiatig the two deductionists. The other things are minor. Sherlock knows science, whilst Patrick knows people.
I made this graph to emphacise my point.
Hope this was a delighting little entry after the weeks of scilence. I'm honestly running out of ideas for the blog, but I'm taking strides to get back on track with blogging. Hopefully it'll turn out fine.
Happy Deducing!
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