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[-] howrar@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 months ago

Occam's razor doesn't mean that the simplest explanation is always true, but rather that it's usually the most likely to be true.

Using simplicity as a measure of how likely something is to be true always felt a little anthropocentric. How do we determine that something is simple if not via the systems and abstractions that are easy for human minds to comprehend?

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