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Author: Leon HoeneveldLeon Hoeneveld Date: Sep 15, 2008 00:39
curmudgeon schreef:
> "Mark Earnest" yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> "curmudgeon" bresnan.net> wrote in message
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> Ockham's Razor, simply put, is the belief that when all things are
> considered, the simplest explanation is often the truest one.
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> William Ockham 1214 - 1294
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> Agree.
> The more the words, the less the meaning.
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> I wonder just what the Emanuel Kant fan club would
> either think or say about it ?
>
> God, being the most simple explanation, would surely be chosen.
Also for Kantians.
I think Ockham's razor means that if you need a factor to explain the
something happening, but you can also leave this factor out, that you
should leave the factor out.
In this case: a blind watchmaker's process, needs no "watchmaker", it
becomes a blind process.
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