Occam's razor (the principle of thought-economy) provides a further example of a state of affairs shared by different philosophical orientations, albeit that some ascribe a purely logical nature to it while someone else may discern in it an analogical link between the logical-analytical aspect ...
Instead, I will invoke Ockham's razor and argue that we should only prefer a complex explanation over a simple one, where the more complex is the more effective. I do not believe that interlanguage is such a case. Close examination of the literature reveals that no new facts are uncovered...
So, I was both bemused and befuddled by them, since I’m known to have an attraction to the mysterious but more prone to use Occam’s Razor. My pop, on the other hand, never let investigatory facts or common sense answers get in the way of his metaphysical yarns, though. It was ...
Most of his conclusions were based on artificial distinctions in the biblical text that defy any sense of Ockham’s razor, particularly his distinction between those passages addressing Christians in general and those addressing disciples.21 He called “Satanic” and the “Enemy of Souls” anyone ...
that a she-wolf was his foster mother, that he marched with a thousand men of his village of Rome against twenty-five thousand combatants of the village of the Sabines: that later he became a god; that Tarquin, the ancient, cut a stone with a razor, and that a vestal drew a ship...
In the same day shall the Lord shave with a razor that is hired, namely, by them beyond the river, by the king of Assyria, the head and the hair of the genitals, and he will also consume the beard. “Moreover, the Lord said unto me, take thee a great roll, and write in it ...