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Although I apprarently did not win the quiz, I wanted to share with the  
list that I am working on a set of papers that argues that the  
methodology of Holmes and Dupin should be taken seriously.  I had a  
paper in the first number of _Review of Political Economy_ this year  
called "Working Backwards: Instrumental Analysis as a Policy  
Discovery Procedure" that did not mention Holmes, but later I  
discovered that this was exactly the method of Holmes. A number of  
other authors have argued that Holmes' method was the method that  
Charles Sanders Peirce called abduction or retroduction, and my paper  
includes a section of Peirce's methods.  But the paper also includes a  
section on the method of the ancient greek geometers that Polya termed  
"heuristics" and this is exactly the method of Holmes.  If I could write  
the paper over, I would include Holmes, and maybe even Dupin, and I  
am currently working on some papers that will examine these issues  
and connections.  I would be happy to hear from anyone with interest  
in these areas, or suggestions for relevant citations.   
 
Mat Forstater 
 
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