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* The entry on Bigfoot at the Skeptic's Dictionary

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The Skeptic's Dictionary is a collection of cross-referenced skeptical essays by Robert Todd Carroll, published on his website skepdic. com and in a printed book.

The Skeptic's Dictionary is, according to its foreword, intended to be a small counterbalance to the voluminous occult and paranormal literature ; not to present a balanced view of occult subjects.

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Gardner rejects the concave hollow Earth hypothesis on the basis of Occam's Razor.

Aether fell to Occam's Razor.

Thus there is no way of discerning which, if any, ethical properties exist ; by Occam's Razor, the simplest assumption is that none do.

It is named after William of Ockham of Occam's Razor fame.

This explanation is more preferred under Occam's Razor than exogenesis since it theorizes that the creation of life is a matter of probability and can occur when the correct conditions are met rather than in exogenesis that assumes it is a singular event or that Earth did not meet those conditions on its own.

* Occam's Razor

One important contribution that he made to modern science and modern intellectual culture was the principle of parsimony in explanation and theory building that came to be known as Occam's Razor.

* The Myth of Occam's Razor by William M. Thorburn ( 1918 )

* 1285 – William of Ockham, English Franciscan to whom Occam's Razor is attributed ( approximate date ; d. 1349 )

Hence, Aquinas acknowledges the principle which today is known as Occam's Razor, but prefers causal explanations to other simple explanations ( cf.

Bertrand Russell offers a particular version of Occam's Razor: " Whenever possible, substitute constructions out of known entities for inferences to unknown entities.

This endless supply of elaborate competing explanations cannot be ruled out – but by using Occam's Razor.

There have been other attempts to derive Occam's Razor from probability theory, notable attempts made by Harold Jeffreys and E. T. Jaynes.

* What is Occam's Razor?

* NIPS 2001 Workshop " Foundations of Occam's Razor and parsimony in learning "

This is why science uses Occam's Razor ; hypotheses without sufficient justification are eliminated.

However, the fact that empirical evidence does not serve to determine between alternative theories does not necessarily imply that all theories are of equal value, as scientists often use guiding principles such as Occam's Razor.

A widely-used and important example of a heuristic argument is Occam's Razor.

Biologist and atheist Richard Dawkins criticises the belief in miracles as a subversion of Occam's Razor.

A common misapprehension of Occam's Razor has it that the simpler theory is always the best.

He applies Occam's Razor, and suggests that it prefers the standard external ' reality ' over something like a brain in a vat.

With this he could nullify the use of Occam's Razor and even Deutsch's first premises on the solipsists mind, since they are arguments made using inductive reasoning.

A learning procedure then generates a model that attempts to meet two sometimes conflicting objectives: Perform as well as possible on the training data, and generalize as well as possible to new data ( usually, this means being as simple as possible, for some technical definition of " simple ", in accordance with Occam's Razor ).

A classical example of an inductive bias is Occam's Razor, assuming that the simplest consistent hypothesis about the target function is actually the best.