Topic: My own Mussings on Occams Razor...

[Sirgod]

thanks for the Reply Seth. I think I understand It abit better, at least Enough to argue It's Denial under Scientific basis/Concepts.

Stephen

[Stormbringer]

Bear mind that The razor does not exclude more complex hypothesis it merely places the most weight initially on the simpler explanations. Should the simpler explanations fail to describe the problem adequately then they must be modiified or discarded and other less simple explantions must assume favor. One way of stating it has been " There is no need to multiply entities unecessarily."  Many rationalists assume the razor forbids ood explanations. Yet often the world is very bizzare in it's workings, certainly complex beyond the ordinary sense of man. Occam's razor makes a good rule of thumb for figuring things out but it is not a hard and fast law of the universe.  

[Death_Merchant]

Occam's Razor: one should not increase, beyond what is necessary, the number of entities required to explain anything

DO NOT APPLY to understanding the behavior of women!  

[msnevil]

 

Woman must not exist for they can't be explained or rationalized.

Therefore. To believe in woman takes faith.

Or you believe in the "CHAOS" theory.    

[Stormbringer]

Indeed.

[Capt. Mike]

Here's a quote I found:

Occam's razor is a logical principle attributed to the mediaeval philosopher William of Occam (or Ockham). The principle states that one should not make more assumptions than the minimum needed. This principle is often called the principle of parsimony. It underlies all scientific modelling and theory building. It admonishes us to choose from a set of otherwise equivalent models of a given phenomenon the simplest one. In any given model, Occam's razor helps us to "shave off" those concepts, variables or constructs that are not really needed to explain the phenomenon. By doing that, developing the model will become much easier, and there is less chance of introducing inconsistencies, ambiguities and redundancies.


http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/OCCAMRAZ.html

Just throwing something out there

Mike
 

[SL-Punisher]

Simple is a subjective concept. In most systems complexity is the rule rather than the exception.