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{{a|philosophy|}}A rule of thumb, attributed to 12th century Franciscan friar William of Occam, that recommends when being presented with competing hypotheses about the same prediction, one should choose the solution with that makes the fewest assumptions. | {{a|philosophy| | ||
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}}A rule of thumb, attributed to 12th century Franciscan friar William of Occam, that recommends when being presented with competing hypotheses about the same prediction, one should choose the solution with that makes the fewest assumptions. | |||
[[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 spacetime dimensions required by [[string theory]] are concerned. | [[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 spacetime dimensions required by [[string theory]] are concerned. | ||