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| rdfs:comment | - Occam's Razor was a logical principle ascribed to 14th century human William of Occam, which stated, "The least complex answer is probably right." (TOS novel: Planet of Judgment; SCE eBook: Foundations, Book One)
- Occam's Razor is a principle in logic which states the following: given several competing explanations for the same phenomenon, one should select the explanation with the least amount of fact.
- Occam's Razor is a 1st season episode of House which first aired on November 30, 2004. After a spirited sexual intercourse with his fiancee, Brandon collapses, suffering from abdominal pain, nausea, fever and low blood pressure. House and his team cannot pinpoint Brandon's problem since there is no illness with this many symptoms. But then, Brandon complains of pain in his fingers and House suddenly zeroes in on the cause.
- Occam's Razor is a unique combat knife in Fallout 3.
- Occam's Razor can be retrieved from one of the following activities/vendors:
- Occam's Razor is a fanfiction written and published on AO3 by hollycomb. It was written for the South Park Big Bang 2013.
- Occam's razor tells us a simple explanation with few assumptions is more likely to be true. Something could have happened in several different ways. Then a way with few guesses is more likely to be correct than a way with many guesses. Of course if a complex explanation works better than a simple explanation we take the complex explanation seriously.
- Occam's razor (or Ockham's razor) is often expressed in Latin as the lex parsimoniae (translating to the law of parsimony, law of economy or law of succinctness) is a heuristic that states "entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity" (entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem). This may be alternatively phrased as pluralitas non est ponenda sine necessitate ("plurality should not be posited without necessity"). Occam's Razor is attributed to the 14th-century English logician, theologian and Franciscan friar William of Ockham. When competing hypotheses are equal in other respects, the principle recommends selection of the hypothesis that introduces the fewest assumptions and postulates the fewest entities while still sufficiently answering the question. It is in this sense t
- Occam's Razor is a logical principle first described in the 14th century by William of Ockham, an English Franciscan friar and philosopher. It is often used to evaluate the usefulness of a theory. Its main tenet is that "Entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity." It can be summed up with the phrase "When you hear hoofbeats, think horses, not zebras." Example: There have been theories that Ancient Astronauts built the Egyptian Pyramids instead of humans. For this to be true, we'd need the following givens: The more normal theory only requires that
- The application of the principle often shifts the burden of proof in a discussion. The razor states that one should proceed to simpler theories until simplicity can be traded for greater explanatory power. The simplest available theory need not be most accurate. Philosophers point out also that the exact meaning of simplest may be nuanced.
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| abstract | - Occam's Razor is a logical principle first described in the 14th century by William of Ockham, an English Franciscan friar and philosopher. It is often used to evaluate the usefulness of a theory. Its main tenet is that "Entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity." It can be summed up with the phrase "When you hear hoofbeats, think horses, not zebras." Most theories have a foundation of underlying premises (the aforementioned "entities"), all of which need to be true for the theory itself to be true. Occam's Razor suggests believing the theory with the fewest underlying premises (the aforementioned "not multiplied beyond necessity"). Example: There have been theories that Ancient Astronauts built the Egyptian Pyramids instead of humans. For this to be true, we'd need the following givens: 1.
* aliens exist, 2.
* they have some form of interstellar travel, 3.
* they know how to find us, and 4.
* once they got here, they'd waste time building huge stone things in a desert instead of, you know, actually showing themselves. The more normal theory only requires that 1.
* humans exist, and 2.
* said humans would waste time building huge stone things in a desert. You can probably guess which theory Occam would agree with, and why. It's the bane of Conspiracy Theorists everywhere for the same reason: take a look at the Apollo moon landings, which a good percentage, in the single figures, believe was hoaxed. Often people will find "evidence" that the landings could never have taken place, but it rests on the arguments that the US government 1.
* were willing to throw billions away for smoke-and-mirrors attempts, 2.
* were smart enough to fool 90% of the population (which some would contest), 3.
* were simultaneously stupid enough not to cover their tracks, 4.
* were able to pay off and swear to silence thousands of people working at NASA and other companies for forty years when they couldn't even pull off a simple burglary, and 5.
* were actively collaborating with the Soviets during a period of history where relations were historically edgy and were given consent by Moscow to win this symbolic victory. After that, you'd think that the simplest explanation was to, you know, actually send people there (That Mitchell and Webb Look has a brilliant series of sketches on this idea, including the moon landing). The Razor is commonly misinterpreted as saying, "The simplest theory is the best." This is not correct in Real Life unless it is the simpler of two theories which make predictions with identical degrees of accuracy. All other aspects of the theory have to be equal before simplicity is taken into account. It also requires that all the data is accounted for. Newtonian physics are simpler then modern theories and were sufficient to take man to the Moon, but (with all due respect to the man) Sir Isaac simply could not explain all the data eventually collected--especially since a lot of the offending material had not been collected when Principia Mathematica was published. This required some other smart man--fellow named Albert Einstein--to formulate more complex theories, particularly the outrageous stew we call "Relativity" which functions along completely different rules. Now, Occam's Razor would suggest that there must be some Grand Unified Theory that explains why physics work one way on an atomic level and completely differently on a larger-than-atomic level. Much of the last century of scientific research (including Einstein's) has centered around trying to come up with one. They haven't succeeded. So far, Occam's Razor is wrong, and the universe simply functions according to completely different sets of rules depending on an object's physical size, for no good reason whatsoever. Nobody likes this, but in the end, nothing says that an explanation must be simple. Another very common mistake is to summon up the Razor in a debate over a point that is entirely moot in order to add weight to a particular argument. This usage is entirely fallacious as the Razor does nothing more than recommend the hypothesis that makes the fewest new assumptions. It is not a magical tool that points to the right answer. In a lab it will be used hundreds or thousands of times, with each and every one of the chosen hypothesis being rigorously tested, before a correct answer is found. In a debate the Razor will be used once and will, invariably, choose the user's answer as the 'right' one. Funny, that. And always remember that Occam's Razor is a guideline, not a rule. Be careful of facts that are subjective in nature or may not be fully established.
- Occam's Razor was a logical principle ascribed to 14th century human William of Occam, which stated, "The least complex answer is probably right." (TOS novel: Planet of Judgment; SCE eBook: Foundations, Book One)
- Occam's razor (or Ockham's razor) is often expressed in Latin as the lex parsimoniae (translating to the law of parsimony, law of economy or law of succinctness) is a heuristic that states "entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity" (entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem). This may be alternatively phrased as pluralitas non est ponenda sine necessitate ("plurality should not be posited without necessity"). Occam's Razor is attributed to the 14th-century English logician, theologian and Franciscan friar William of Ockham. When competing hypotheses are equal in other respects, the principle recommends selection of the hypothesis that introduces the fewest assumptions and postulates the fewest entities while still sufficiently answering the question. It is in this sense that Occam's razor is usually understood." It serves an important part of science and abductive reasoning. The principle is popularly summarized, but misleadingly, as "the simplest explanation is usually the correct one." Simplest referring to the theory with the fewest new assumptions and not by the time or number of words it takes to express the theory. To quote Isaac Newton, "We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances. Therefore, to the same natural effects we must, so far as possible, assign the same causes." In science, Occam’s razor is used as a heuristic (rule of thumb) to guide scientists in the development of theoretical models rather than as an arbiter between published models. In the scientific method, Occam's razor is not considered an irrefutable principle of logic, and certainly not a scientific result. In 2005 Marcus Hutter mathematically proved that shorter computable theories have more weight when calculating the expected value of an action across all computable theories which perfectly describe previous observations.
- Occam's Razor is a principle in logic which states the following: given several competing explanations for the same phenomenon, one should select the explanation with the least amount of fact.
- Occam's Razor is a 1st season episode of House which first aired on November 30, 2004. After a spirited sexual intercourse with his fiancee, Brandon collapses, suffering from abdominal pain, nausea, fever and low blood pressure. House and his team cannot pinpoint Brandon's problem since there is no illness with this many symptoms. But then, Brandon complains of pain in his fingers and House suddenly zeroes in on the cause.
- Occam's Razor is a unique combat knife in Fallout 3.
- Occam's Razor can be retrieved from one of the following activities/vendors:
- Occam's Razor is a fanfiction written and published on AO3 by hollycomb. It was written for the South Park Big Bang 2013.
- The application of the principle often shifts the burden of proof in a discussion. The razor states that one should proceed to simpler theories until simplicity can be traded for greater explanatory power. The simplest available theory need not be most accurate. Philosophers point out also that the exact meaning of simplest may be nuanced. Solomonoff's inductive inference is a mathematically formalized Occam's razor: shorter computable theories have more weight when calculating the probability of the next observation, using all computable theories which perfectly describe previous observations. In science, Occam's razor is used as a heuristic (general guiding rule or an observation) to guide scientists in the development of theoretical models rather than as an arbiter between published models. In the scientific method, Occam's razor is not considered an irrefutable principle of logic or a scientific result.
- Occam's razor tells us a simple explanation with few assumptions is more likely to be true. Something could have happened in several different ways. Then a way with few guesses is more likely to be correct than a way with many guesses. Of course if a complex explanation works better than a simple explanation we take the complex explanation seriously.
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