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===Occam's duct tape===

===Occam's duct tape===

Also known as '''Occam's Krazy Glue''' or '''Occam's Stapler'''<ref>http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/discussion.php?id=oovi8sdv</ref>, this is pretty much the exact opposite of Occam's razor – it involves making as many unnecessary and irrelevant assumptions as possible.

Also known as '''Occam's Krazy Glue''' or '''Occam's Stapler''',<ref>http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/discussion.php?id=oovi8sdv</ref> this is pretty much the exact opposite of Occam's razor – it involves making as many unnecessary and irrelevant assumptions as possible.

===Alder's razor===

===Alder's razor===

{{main|Logical positivism}}

{{main|Logical positivism}}

This razor was formulated by Mike Alder and is better known by its correct name, '''Newton's flaming laser sword'''. It says that whatever cannot be settled by experimentation is not worth debate.<ref>This statement itself cannot be tested by experimentation, likely making it an example of [[hypocrisy]].</ref>

This razor was formulated by Mike Alder and is better known by its correct name, '''Newton's flaming laser sword'''. It says that whatever cannot be settled by experimentation is not worth debate.<ref>This statement itself cannot be tested by experimentation, making it an example of [[hypocrisy]].</ref>

===Crabtree's bludgeon===

===Crabtree's bludgeon===

{{cquote|As a principle of parsimony, conversational implications are to be preferred over semantic context for linguistic explanations.|||Grice, we think?<ref>https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/implicature/</ref>}}

{{cquote|As a principle of parsimony, conversational implications are to be preferred over semantic context for linguistic explanations.|||Grice, we think?<ref>https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/implicature/</ref>}}

Basically, when in a conversation, prefer what the speaker meant over what the sentence he/she spoke literally meant.

Basically, when in a conversation, prefer what the speaker meant over what the sentence he or she spoke literally meant.

===Hume's razor===

===Hume's razor===