The Art of Reading

THE OCCAM’S RAZOR OR OCKHAM’S RAZOR “This is the basis of science. It gives two possible outcomes for an event and the simplest version or easiest to explain of the outcomes is the right one. It deduces that simplicity is the best or easiest explanation to various hypotheses.”  Occam’s razor is not to be used to counter others opinion, its heuristic in nature. It is a tool to disprove something, and you only use it to find possible explanation of an event. Razor is a principle in philosophy that allows one to eliminate ("shave off") unlikely explanations for a phenomenon, or avoid unnecessary actions. The principle of parsimony and the principle of plurality is the same to me heuristically. Parsimony is not using resources available and the principle of plurality stipulates that plurality should not be posited without necessity (pluralitas non est ponenda sine necessitate). William of Occam was a realist empiricist (perception based on intuitive cognition)....