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"Razors" of this sort are only rules of thumb that tend to be right often enough to be useful. They are not laws of nature.
by api 9y ago
"Razors" of this sort are only rules of thumb that tend to be right often enough to be useful. They are not laws of nature.
- watwut 9y agoBut here it was used as an argument - I am right because it is simpler explanation. Doing that is a fallacy and doing that after you personally phrased both theories so that the right one is simple is manipulation combined with fallacy. The "Now use Occam's Razor." demand is wrong use of Occam's Razor. It is dishonest rhetoric that uses Occam's Razor as math theorem rather then rule of thumb.