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To: Kevmo

I don’t think you understand Occam’s Razor. You keep using that word, but I don’t think it means what you think it means.


257 posted on 11/19/2011 3:15:42 AM PST by dinodino
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To: dinodino

From Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occham%27s_Razor

The words attributed to Occam are “entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity” (entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem), although these actual words are not to be found in his extant works.[5] The saying is also phrased as pluralitas non est ponenda sine necessitate (”plurality should not be posited without necessity”).[6] To quote Isaac Newton, “We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances. Therefore, to the same natural effects we must, so far as possible, assign the same causes.”[7]


320 posted on 11/20/2011 7:25:58 PM PST by Kevmo (When a thing is owned by everybody nobody gives value to it. Communism taught us this. ~A. Rossi)
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To: dinodino

You keep using that word, but I don’t think it means what you think it means.

***You hint elsewhere that when I use the phrase “sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic” that I’m plagiarizing because I do not cite the source of the phrase, which by now is a cliche. Here you do exactly what you claim against me by yanking a line from “The Princess Bride”. You are disingenuous to say the least.


321 posted on 11/20/2011 7:30:40 PM PST by Kevmo (When a thing is owned by everybody nobody gives value to it. Communism taught us this. ~A. Rossi)
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