Occam's razor

However, it is not effective with every mental illness. This qualifies it to be a model drift. For example, a study that included four randomized trials and 528 patients compared psychoanalysis or psychodynamic therapy, medication, and other types of therapy in their treatment of schizophrenia (Malmberg, Fenton, &Rathbone, 2001). Malmberg found that patients in psychodynamic therapy tended to remain unqualified to be discharged compared to a group that only received medication. Moreover, he did…

Any religious believer can develop a standard of inquiry and evaluation that can assist him or her in guarding self against religious authorities laying on them a false hermeneutics or flawed interpretation of religious texts. For instance, in the three monotheistic religious traditions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, each tradition establishes assertively that their respective religious scriptures or texts are the de jure holy book because God Himself was responsible for providing it to…

“Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem”- William of Ockham. Occam’s razor; A principle in latin which translates to “No more things should be presumed to exist than are absolutely necessary” (90). In the novel ‘The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-time’ by Mark Haddon, the main character named Christopher Boone is a high functioning mathematical savant. It is stated in the back of the book that he “has no understanding of human emotions.” This is false. Christopher has the…

following a female around and protecting her from other males (Bercovitch, 1983). Why would males participate in a behavior that disrupts their daily life and is energetically costly, and how does it benefit them more than promiscuous mating? Using Occam’s Razor and the belief that all behaviors have an evolutionary benefit, we can hypothesize that male olive baboons initiated/participate in consortships, despite the energy costs, because it increases their reproductive fitness, by raising the…

“To be or not to be” wrote William Shakespeare in his play Hamlet. Or did he? For years intellectuals have debated whether Shakespeare really wrote his 154 sonnets and 37 plays (Pruitt). Despite the present-day lack of evidence to prove Shakespeare’s authorship and the myriad theories to the contrary, the balance tips toward concluding that Shakespeare is the one true author of his impactful collection of works. When people start to question the authorship of Shakespeare’s plays they…

Abstract— The P vs NP problem is still one of the greatest unsolved problem in Mathematics and computer Science. This survey paper is intended to explain what P vs NP problem is and what are the advances that have been made to solve this problem and How closer are we to solve this problem and what is its status i.e. Is P = NP? Keywords— Polynomial, Non - Determinsitic, P, NP, NPC Reductions, Reducibility, Reductions, certificate, complexity I. INTRODUCTION What is P vs NP? Why it is important to…

William Paley set out to create a logical argument called “The Watchmaker Argument” which proves the existence of a creator, and therefore, the existence of God. In “Natural Theology”, Paley argues that due to the complex nature of the universe, the universe must have had a creator. Paley’s argument would seem to make sense, however, when put under modern day scrutiny, does not hold up to the degree that it was originally intended to. Throughout this essay, I will argue that Paley’s Watchmaker…

One of the most obvious and yet simple reasons for why we explore space besides figuring out how life started is because, by nature, we are curious. We have an innate curiosity engraved in us as human beings, and because of that we yearn to discover and to explore what we don 't yet understand. The first people that walked on this earth had to of looked up at the sun and the stars and wondered how they function and what their purpose was- but they didn 't necessarily have any of the tools or the…

Of all the means through which humans perceive the world, sight is perhaps the most important. It is our primary means of understanding the physical nature of our surroundings, both immediate and distant. It is only natural that the great thinkers of antiquity were curious about the nature of vision, and inseparably, that of light itself. In the manner characteristic of ancient science, many common ideas about optics were “hit or miss”, so to speak. Certain Greek thinkers had hypotheses about…

The Curious Incident of the dog in the night- time Chapter 2 • The book opens seven minutes after midnight • This book is from the point of view Christopher John Francis Boone • Christopher finds Wellington who belonging to Mrs. Shears • Wellington was dead with a garden fork through his side Chapter 3 • Christopher can’t understand people’s emotions. • Christopher every prime number up to 7,057. • Christopher could only identify the sad face, which represents how he felt when he found…