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Group: alt.philosophy · Group Profile
Author: TruthSlave
Date: Sep 16, 2008 12:24

curmudgeon wrote:
> Ockham's Razor, simply put, is the belief that when all things are
> considered, the simplest explanation is often the truest one.
>
> William Ockham 1214 - 1294
>
>

Is it possible to know all things? Who has knowledge or experience
to consider 'all things'? Is Ockham's razor redundant, mere rhetoric
for those who can't, or wont think for themselves?

At every stage of human development one sees the product of Ockham's
Razor. Ockham is true until it is not. Leading one to the obvious
thought: what do we now accept, which as yet to be refuted?

If there's one thing we know, it is that we can't know all things,
indeed our perception of truth is limited to what we already know.

We see in terms of those answers we have been taught, and won't
readily try to reconceptualise for the paradoxes which exist
about us. Instead the contradictory or the conflicting, where we
percieve it, is forced to fit our available language. We wait to
be told.

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