{"id":562,"date":"2016-06-24T13:32:34","date_gmt":"2016-06-24T13:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/?p=562"},"modified":"2017-10-31T15:39:31","modified_gmt":"2017-10-31T15:39:31","slug":"appendix-z29-occams-razor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/?p=562","title":{"rendered":"APPENDIX Z29: Occam\u2019s Razor"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pc pcb0 w0 h0\">\n<div class=\"t m1 x73 h6d y42b ff1c fs29 fc0 sc0 ls0 ws0\">APPENDIX Z29:<\/div>\n<div class=\"t m1 x73 h6d y42c ff1c fs29 fc0 sc0 ls0 ws0\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"t m1 x73 h6d y42d ff1c fs29 fc0 sc0 ls0 ws0\">Occam\u2019<span class=\"_ _0\"><\/span>s Razor<\/div>\n<div class=\"t m1 x73 h55 y42e ff1b fs4 fc0 sc0 ls0 ws0\">\u201c<span class=\"ff1c\">Occam\u2019<span class=\"_ _e\"><\/span>s razor<span class=\"ff19\"> (also written as <\/span>Ockham\u2019<span class=\"_ _2\"><\/span>s razor<span class=\"ff19\">, Latin <\/span><\/span>\n            <\/div>\n<div class=\"t m1 x73 h55 y42f ff30 fs4 fc0 sc0 ls0 ws0\">lex parsimoniae<span class=\"ff19\">) is the law of parsimony<span class=\"_ _0\"><\/span>, economy or <\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"t m1 x73 h55 y430 ff19 fs4 fc0 sc0 ls0 ws0\">succinctness. It is a principle urging one to select<br \/>\n                among\n            <\/div>\n<div class=\"t m1 x73 h55 y57f ff19 fs4 fc0 sc0 ls0 ws0\">competing hypotheses that which makes the fewest\n            <\/div>\n<div class=\"t m1 x73 h55 y432 ff19 fs4 fc0 sc0 ls0 ws0\">assumptions and thereby of<span class=\"_ _2\"><\/span>fers<br \/>\n                the simplest explanation\n            <\/div>\n<div class=\"t m1 x73 h55 y433 ff19 fs4 fc0 sc0 ls0 ws0\">of the effect.\u201d*<\/div>\n<div class=\"t m1 x73 h2d y434 ff1b fs4 fc0 sc0 ls0 ws0\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"t m1 x73 h55 y435 ff19 fs4 fc0 sc0 ls0 ws0\">Summa offers a so-to-speak \u2018simple\u2019, but<br \/>\n                purportedly\n            <\/div>\n<div class=\"t m1 x73 h55 y436 ff19 fs4 fc0 sc0 ls0 ws0\">sophisticated and powerful proposition:<\/div>\n<div class=\"t m1 x73 h2d y437 ff1b fs4 fc0 sc0 ls0 ws0\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"t m1 x73 h2d y438 ff1b fs4 fc0 sc0 ls0 ws0\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"t m1 x4f h45 y580 ff1c fs4 fc0 sc0 ls0 ws0\">Quest for Potential<\/div>\n<div class=\"t m1 xb6 h6b y8b7 ff31 fs20 fc0 sc0 ls0 ws0\">\u221e<\/div>\n<div class=\"t m1 xb7 h45 y580 ff1c fs4 fc0 sc0 ls0 ws0\"> ignited,<\/div>\n<div class=\"t m1 x6c h45 y379 ff1c fs4 fc0 sc0 ls0 ws0\">drives and indeed, is, the cosmos.<\/div>\n<div class=\"t m1 x73 h2d y439 ff1b fs4 fc0 sc0 ls0 ws0\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"t m1 x73 h2d y43a ff1b fs4 fc0 sc0 ls0 ws0\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"t m1 x73 h55 y43b ff19 fs4 fc0 sc0 ls0 ws0\"> Occam might smile.<\/div>\n<div class=\"t m1 x73 h2d y43d ff1b fs4 fc0 sc0 ls0 ws0\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"t m1 x73 h2d y43e ff1b fs4 fc0 sc0 ls0 ws0\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"t m1 x73 h6e y8af ff1b fs27 fc0 sc0 ls0 ws0\">*<span class=\"ff2b ls2c\">Wikipedia Online<span class=\"ff19 ws64\">, http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Occam\u2019<span class=\"_ _e\"><\/span>s_razor (accessed April 25, 2012)<\/span><\/span>\n            <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>APPENDIX Z29: Occam\u2019s Razor \u201cOccam\u2019s razor (also written as Ockham\u2019s razor, Latin lex parsimoniae) is the law of parsimony, economy or succinctness. It is a principle urging one to select among competing hypotheses that which makes the fewest assumptions and thereby offers the simplest explanation of the effect.\u201d* Summa offers a so-to-speak \u2018simple\u2019, but purportedly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=562"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":564,"href":"https:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562\/revisions\/564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}