Re: Ockham\'s Razor
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If justifying OR is a straightforward empirical matter . . .
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Why do you keep saying this, when that isn't what the people you are arguing with are saying?
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To quote you, you said earlier, "If the simpler explanation were not more likely to be true, what is the justification for the razor at all? The very point is that they are NOT equally likely to be true given the evidence. Hence the razor."
If you think that OR says something like "the simplest theory is more likely to be true," then you think the justification for OR is empirical, rather than, say, aesthetic, pragmatic, or deductive, which are all forms of justification for OR that philosophers have offered.
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