Hitler and Abductive Logic by Novak Ben

Author:Novak, Ben
Language: eng
Format: epub
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Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2012-03-15T00:00:00+00:00

In this incident, Old Shatterhand is shown to be as proficient in perceiving and reading the slightest clue as Zadig had been. From marks on the ground, a few hairs, and paint droppings, he was able to describe to the amazement of his companion, not only how many men were in the outlaws’ party, but also how many were whites and how many were Indians; what tribe the Indians belonged to; who the leader of the outlaw party was; what color horse the leader rode; and that the leader was lame. He could also divine not only the direction in which they fled, but that they were going to meet another Indian party nearby.

At the end of the book, Old Shatterhand sums up the most significant quality constituting the ideal “Man of the West”: “All of us were men who had learned to make correct inferences from the most insignificant mark or sign.”[180] In this pithy statement, Karl May summarizes the distinctive form of logic that formed the theme of the entire work. It was precisely the same type of logic displayed by Zadig, and extolled by Thomas Henry Huxley as a revolutionary form of logic that is “fraught with danger” to all established canons.

As we shall see, this powerful logic came into the hands—and mind—of a young aficionado of Karl May, an eleven-year-old boy in the Empire of Austria-Hungary whose name was Adolf Hitler.

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