Jens:
>Well, would anybody use that rule in a court of law?
I would hope, although probably seldom the case, that Occam's Razor
would be adhered to in a court of law. Of course, the length of a
story is irrelevant to its truth. Anyone with a modicum of reasoning
can see that this has nothing to do with Occamist thinking anyways!
Rather, for one thing, it is more likely that a logically consistent story
is truthful over one containing paradoxes. However, other complex
factors also come into play that deal with human psychology, and
as we all know, human behaviour is often beyond the realm of logic.
One cannot blame Occam's Razor for its misapplications.
- gLeN
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