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Quote by: Geoff332 This is a useful introduction. For those who haven't run across it before, Okham's Razor is an epistemic principle that states if you have to chose from competing theories, chose the simplest theory that explains the evidence.
Of course, it then says that 'simplest' is in the eyes of the beholder, and it's an imperfect tool. But it still does a nice job of destroying many weak theories that unnecessarily over-complicate things. |
In the scientific context it has never destroyed any theory. In science there is only one way to do that. And that is experiment on nature. Magical philosophical incantations such as Ockham's razor are for arm chair realists (AKA philosophers). Actual realists try not to make presumptions about reality such as it must be simple. That is a hope of many but so far reality doesn't look simple at all.
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