And history is a humanities, not a science.
And you still fail to grasp the concept of necessity. Of course, your
straw Occham is a lot simpler than the real one, so I can understand your
mistake.
In sci.psychology.psychotherapy KLONDYKE.PETE at postoffice.worldnet.att.net wrote:
: 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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