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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 spacetime 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variable and the speed of light constant, despite there being almost no hard evidence for it, but they have still been superseded by Einstein’s, which do. | 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 spacetime 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variable and the speed of light constant, despite there being almost no hard evidence for it, but they have still been superseded by Einstein’s, which do. | ||
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