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Allegedly influential on {{buchstein}} when formulating his “[[Otto’s razor]]” as a simple heuristic for evaluating human actions. | Allegedly influential on {{buchstein}} when formulating his “[[Otto’s razor]]” as a simple heuristic for evaluating human actions. | ||
[[Richard Dawkins]] is very fond of using Occam’s razor to eviscerate God-botherers — to be fair to him, any explanation of ''anything'' predicated on an all-knowing, all-seeing, invisible and non-material creator is drawing a long bow — but by the same token, he does not seem to have noticed its application to fundamental physics, especially insofar as dark matter, the multiverse and unseen | [[Richard Dawkins]] is very fond of using Occam’s razor to eviscerate God-botherers — to be fair to him, any explanation of ''anything'' predicated on an all-knowing, all-seeing, invisible and non-material creator is drawing a long bow — but by the same token, he does not seem to have noticed its application to fundamental physics, especially insofar as dark matter, the [[multiverse]] and unseen [[Space-time|space-time dimensions]] required by [[string theory]] are concerned. | ||
That said, Occam’s razor is no principle of logic, but a convenient [[heuristic]]. There are plenty of examples where Occam would prefer the wrong explanation: Newton’s laws of motion, for example, do not require contorting the geometry of | That said, Occam’s razor is no principle of logic, but a convenient [[heuristic]]. There are plenty of examples where Occam would prefer the wrong explanation: Newton’s laws of motion, for example, do not require contorting the geometry of [[space-time]] to the point where time is a variable and the speed of light constant, despite there being almost no hard evidence for it, but they have still been superseded by Einstein’s general relativity, which does. | ||
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*[[Otto’s razor]] | *[[Otto’s razor]] |