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Topic: Occam's Razor

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Intelligence:Stupid
Personality:Analytical
Currently has on their coffee table:Vogue magazine
Religion(s):Atheist
Interest(s):Science,  Psychology
Favorite great thinker(s):Ampere,  Stephen Hawking,  Richard Dawkins
Favorite movie(s):Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
Favorite computer game(s):Half-Life
Favorite philosopher(s):Descartes,  Immanuel Kant,  Spinoza
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Membership(s):Skeptics
Favorite quote(s):"All truth passes through three stages. First , it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." - Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)
 
 
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Athena Mondale,
Spiritual Consultant

Multiverse theory is not that popular though, and I daresay Bill will want to pull out his Occam's razor when he hears it mentioned.
Richard Hosking,
Paranormal Investigator

Schoch's willingness to dismiss implausible evidence and to use Occam's razor to cut away unnecessary complications is admirable and refreshing in a field in which credulity pays and skepticism is viewed with deep suspicion.
Occam's Razor is named after William of Occam - a sceptic who lived in the 14th Century - a period of time when it was seriously dangerous to be skeptical about a lot of things and especially religion.
Pete Trengle,
Bass Player

His play Occam's Razor was included in the Cherry Lane Alternative Play Reading Series in New York.
SancZOOary and Occam's Razor a $20-million dollar Adventure/Sci Fi/Fantasy/Love Story slated for film production this fall.
Billie Kirgan,
Machinist

Applying Occam's Razor usually proves prudent to trim out unnecessary trash in our theories.
Applying Occam's Razor to this conundrum, we get a smooth, close shave.
Rob Verdann,
Afterdark Removalist

Occam's Razor specifies that the simplest solution is usually the right one, and a solution that had the Negaverse capable of changing everyone's memory aside from hers without any noticeable effects at the same time they stripped her of powers did not make sense.
Arthur Dawkins,
Astro-physicist

Given a choice between two or more viable explanations for some phenomenon, Occam's razor cuts away the more complex explanations in favor of the simplest.
The approach to developing the model described here follows Occam's razor: always seek the simplest explanation consistent with observations.
However given that our only other alternative is an undiscovered cause, Occam's Razor should lead to an Intelligent Designer as a logical inference.
Mark Harris,
Priest

I get to expound on critical thinking, Occam's Razor and a method for regarding various claims in a way that my victim may have never considered.
 
 
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