Re: Ockham\'s Razor
The mutilated and incorrect statement of Ockham's Razor is that 'the simplest explanation is the correct one'. It should take all of about a minute to think of a counter-example.
The best statement of Ockham's Razor is simply, 'a smaller model is more useful than a larger model, if both make sufficiently accurate predictions for your purposes'.
This isn't a really a mind-blowing insight, thus Ockham's Razor is hugely overrated.
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