“There never was a sounder logical maxim of scientific procedure than Ockham’s razor…before you try a complicated hypothesis, you should make quite sure that no simplification of it will explain the facts equally well” – Charles Sanders Peirce
Related:
- 2-1a0a ‘Occam’s razor’ & ‘Irreducibility’ - Simplify the problem but don’t oversimplify.
- 2-1a1a1b ‘Hanlon’s razor’ - We (they) are dumber and thus less ill-intent than we think we (they) are
- QUE5 - Who has the right answer but I ignore because they’re inarticulate. Who do I listen to who is in essence just good marketing.