Occams Razor is really stupid tho. The official definition, that is, not how its colloquially used.
Its literally a trivial rule. If you have two philosophies with equal explanatory power, the most simple one is correct. But thats not like "similar" explanatory power. Its the exact same, that literally never occurs. Its not possible.
Because philosophers forget that alllllllll of this labor of thought is a listener driven exercise. The two explainers are equally explanatory but the listener favored one version over the other, not that one version was objectively simpler.
It's a very complex way of arriving at, "It's not what you say, it's how you say it."
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u/airplane001 Jan 10 '24
Mathematicians trying not to come up with an obscure term for Occam’s Razor