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Storm
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 Posted - 12/04/2004 : 19:16:00 [Permalink]
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The simpliest theory fits the facts. Basic and Simple. Staight and to the point But how do we define Simple?  |
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Dave W.
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Posted - 12/05/2004 : 00:39:55 [Permalink]
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Sorry, but you're wrong about Occam's Razor, Storm.
You could look it up, and correct your "knowledge" of the subject. You could even click Google's "I'm feeling lucky" button and get a good write-up on it, though I'm not sure that it (in particular) would enlighten you on your misconceptions.
In other words, you might have to do more research to come to a truly workable understanding of Occam's Razor. But you wouldn't want that knowledge handed to you, would you? |
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Storm
SFN Regular
USA
708 Posts |
Posted - 12/06/2004 : 08:22:25 [Permalink]
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No I would definetly not wanted it handed to me. So off to learn more.
I am always open to be enlightened to not would stagnate.
Where I feel you are
What might be your interpertation may not be mine
Science is theory based on theory
Time for a new theory
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 12/06/2004 : 08:37:03 [Permalink]
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I beg to differ, friend Storm; scientific theory is based upon testable evidence. Testable evidence, by it's very nature, is based upon facts. These facts are assembled, tested, and in due course are incorporated into a theory.
Simple, no?
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Storm
SFN Regular
USA
708 Posts |
Posted - 12/06/2004 : 09:09:31 [Permalink]
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Really contemplating Occams Razor. So what you are saying or Occams Razor is saying is the it was the cat's claws that moved the slipper or that your Soldier was just was a trick light and fog?  |
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Ricky
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 12/06/2004 : 12:58:42 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by Storm
Really contemplating Occams Razor. So what you are saying or Occams Razor is saying is the it was the cat's claws that moved the slipper or that your Soldier was just was a trick light and fog?
My ghost was a somewhat beautiful trick of the light and fog. Don't know anything about your cat.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist!
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
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Posted - 12/06/2004 : 21:37:42 [Permalink]
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Ricky wrote:quote:
Occams Razor says that when there is equal evidence, the simpilest solution is more likely the correct one.
To phrase it more precisely, the Razor suggests that, given two (or more) hypotheses (or theories) which explain all of the available evidence equally well, the one which requires the fewest assumptions is more likely to be correct. |
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Siberia
SFN Addict
Brazil
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Posted - 12/07/2004 : 05:41:49 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by Storm
No I would definetly not wanted it handed to me. So off to learn more.
I am always open to be enlightened to not would stagnate.
Where I feel you are
What might be your interpertation may not be mine
Science is theory based on theory
Time for a new theory
Science:
Fact: things, when left without support, always go down.
Feeling: I wonder why?
Hypothesis: There's something pulling them down.
Testing, researching, analyzing and calculating.
Theory: things go down because the Earth pulls them down. This force's known as gravity. |
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