However, Thomas Sutcliffe of " The Independent " was more critical, deriding the premise as " entirely ludicrous ", and sarcastically described Mulder's deduction of Tooms'abilities as " clearly another triumph for the deductive method ".
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Note that as the compilation of Ariadne's thread is an inductive process, and due to its exhaustiveness leaves no room for actual study, it is largely frowned upon as a solving method, to be employed only as a last resort when deductive methods fail.
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While Tripp nevertheless believed that Bell " et al . " had rendered a valuable service by showing that psychoanalytic theories are unsupported, he rejected their argument that since psychoanalytic ideas are incorrect the origins of sexual orientation must be genetic and hormonal, noting that in order to reason that way they had to ignore the work of sex researchers such as deductive methods ".
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A contemporary reviewer, Will Cuppy of the " Herald Tribune Books ", said " " The Greek Coffin Mystery " is a lively and well-constructed yarn containing unusual setting, ingenuity of plot, a surprise solution and legitimate use of the analytico-deductive method . " ( Quoted in the first paperback edition, Pocket Books # 179, in 1942 .)
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However, unlike the " Principia ", which vowed " Non fingo hypotheses " or " I make no hypotheses " outside the deductive method, the " Opticks " develops conjectures about light that go beyond the experimental evidence : for example, that the physical behaviour of light was due its " corpuscular " nature as small particles, or that perceived colours were harmonically proportioned like the tones of a diatonic musical scale.
