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> They usually are. No they are not. I can very easily come up with even more convoluted take than yours and call your shallow. Doesn't mean my convoluted tak
by apwell23 3y ago
> They usually are.
No they are not. I can very easily come up with even more convoluted take than yours and call your shallow. Doesn't mean my convoluted take is superior.
eg: it unlikely that american teens on tiktok can enumerate human rights.
https://www.newscientist.com/definition/occams-razor/ https://www.newscientist.com/definition/occams-razor/
"Occam’s razor is a principle often attributed to 14th–century friar William of Ockham that says that if you have two competing ideas to explain the same phenomenon, you should prefer the simpler one."
- prmph 3y agoBut that is Ockham's opinion. Doesn't mean it is some unassailable universal truth. The keyword here is "should"; it is a prescriptive opinion, nothing more