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[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 weeks ago

But that's not what Occam's Razor is. Occam's Razor is an appeal to parsimony: the explanation that requires you to take on the fewest unwarranted assumptions is the best one, at least most of the time. The idea is that if you one possible explanation for an event that requires you to invent a whole metaphysical system and another that doesn't require that, you should prefer the latter explanation assuming both have equal explanatory power. It has absolutely nothing to do with "splitting the difference" between two explanations or anything like that.