Re: Ockham\'s Razor
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it is instructive to observe that it is almost always wrong.
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Ops! In an attempt to be contentious I was being a little wayward in my use of language. What I meant of course was that not that Ockham's razor itself was wrong, but any theory it promotes was, in the sense that in any non trivial scenario the will always be a more accurate theory.
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F=ma?
I think you're forgetting the need for empirical adequacy, which any Occam's Razor pretty much assumes.
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