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Strykerd

04/18/14 3:06 AM

#206664 RE: obiterdictum #206642

Obiterdictum,
The simple explanation would be:

1. Personal View and Personal Experiential Level of Explanation - I see the color yellow because I can and do see yellow when I look at a banana, or yellow post-it notes, or daffodils when they are in front of me.




I understand Occam's razor is a rule-of-thumb. It is a heuristic guide for hypothesis testing. It is not:
- Irrefutable proof of any argument that seems simpler than others.
- A substitute for logic in any argument you make.
- A substitute for actual scientific results.

In fact, it's probably best I avoid ever citing Occam's razor unless I am damn well sure I know what I am doing with it. Lol!

The reason I cited it is because I was reading about medievil philophers and the school of nominalisim and the minimalist principal and Willliam of Occam as one of its most prolific exponents, and he became involved in a long theological conflict with Pope John XXII