From the
wikipedia page
"Occam's razor (also spelled
Ockham's razor) is a principle attributed to the
14th-century English
logician and
Franciscan friar
William of Ockham (
Guilhelmi Ockam and
Guillermi de Ockam in
Latin [1]). Originally a tenet of the
reductionist philosophy of
nominalism, it is more often taken today as a
heuristic maxim that advises economy,
parsimony, or simplicity in
scientific theories."
Conspiracy theory. "You're just a conspiracy nutjob". "Anyone who belives in that stuff has the i.q. of an eggplant".
Believe it or not, the simplest explanation for the things going on in this world today is the conspiracy theory. A good theory has to account for all of the phenomena observed. If there are competing theories than the simplest theory is most likely the correct one.
Much more on this to come.
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