Occam's razor

Darwinian evolution by natural selection. Darwin and his successors have shown how living creatures, “with their spectacular statistical improbability and appearance of design, have evolved by slow, gradual degrees from simple beginnings”. (cit) Now, Occam’s razor states that among competing hypotheses, the simplest one with the fewest assumptions should be selected. In this case, the belief that there is an infinitely complex being who is responsible for designing every single aspect of the…

In the novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, Mark Hadden uses an analogy to further the central idea that human life is a product of a series of lucky occurrences. The protagonist, Christopher Boone, digresses from his thoughts on what is happening presently in his journey to focus on how specious the explanation of divine intervention is in a world where modern science can debunk theories justifying vague and obscure superstition. Hadden’s novel is centered around the thoughts…

In the first two chapters of his essay “Problems of Philosophy” Bertrand Russell explains an alternative solution to philosophical problems that many other philosophers have answered in many different but often similar ways. Problems such as is sense data a sign of physical objects, is there matter at all and if so, what is the nature of a physical object (Bertrand Russell 12-13)? From these questions he later asks: can we take other people’s perceptions into consideration, and are there…

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he word "emotion" dates back to 1579, when it was adapted from the French word émouvoir, which means "to stir up".[1]Animal emotions have been an issue of hot discussion over the centuries with discussions dating back as early as the mid 19th century when Charles Darwin wrote about animal consciousness. Since then it has occupied many a scientist. The question is: what is the basis of assuming that non-human animals have feeling? Is it just established on the mere observation of people, or is…

Even if we do see something that would seem out of place, such as cat suddenly teleporting into a room or a ghost appearing out of the blue, could be easily missed, wrongly interpreted or never thought of being possible since our brains run on Occam’s Razor, the theory that the answer to a question is always the simplest answer. For most supernatural events, this would mean…

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Argument against the Existence of God Humans have long struggled with the questions of life; why are we here, and how did we come to exist. In the search for solutions, societies have attempted to provide meaningful answers to these questions by assigning God as the answer. However, it will be argued, that God does not exist and that the universe developed from the Big Bang, and that human life evolved over millennia. Throughout history, scientists have conducted research into the origins of…

A concept that in science acts like an Occam’s razor, when observing a phenomena, usually the simplest answer is the better one to go with. This is taken to the extreme in conspiracy theories, labeling a conspiracy theory as “bigger than everyone”. If a person or group of people was powerful enough…

a theory if, for example, there is either the intent or the logical possibility of interpreting evidence both ways. There is often a fifth criterion, which is essentially a coherence or elegance - does the theory "feel" right. This can include Occam's razor, ruling out excessively or unnecessarily complicated theories, which can easily be devised. Whether all of these are truly "essential" is probably a matter of debate, defining features of any category can be a problem, but together they…