Electric Sheep on Nostr: When people talk about Occam's Razor as if it proves something, rather than being a ...
When people talk about Occam's Razor as if it proves something, rather than being a bullshit detecting heuristic, then ... yeah. Also, it's much less useful outside of maths and formal logic, which is what William of Occam was focused on when he coined it.
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