05-30-2014, 03:05 PM
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Originally Posted by wmjinman
There's also a philosophy - I forget the name, but something like "Achmed's knife", that goes something like: "The simplest explanation is usually the correct one". So, if there isn't a simple explanation, it's probably "B.S."......
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among competing hypotheses, the one with the fewest assumptions should be selected
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Occam's razor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
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