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The fatal nicks in Occam's Razor

KLONDYKE.PETE at postoffice.worldnet.att.net KLONDYKE.PETE at postoffice.worldnet.att.net
Wed Apr 15 15:53:17 EST 1998


Jani Store <store at cc.helsinki.fi> wrote:
>: > 
>: >  Inherent in Occam's razor is the fact that it WILL be wrong
>: >  with a varying ratio, depending on the nature of the subject
>: >  being studied.

>I think it is doubtfull only when you use it to get off easily and
>actually to not explain anything. But with any subject regardless the
>nature we must start with what we know, not with what we don't know.

In the patterns of history, things are NEVER as simple as they at first 
seemed. They are always more complex,  not less. So Occam was basically 
wrong.

Red

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