----------------- HES POSTING ----------------- 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 ------------ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ------------ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]