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{{cquote|''"Pluralitas non est ponenda sine neccesitate"'', or plurality should not be posited without necessity.|||[[William of Occam]]<ref>http://skepdic.com/occam.html</ref>}}

{{cquote|''"Pluralitas non est ponenda sine neccesitate"'', or plurality should not be posited without necessity.|||[[William of Occam]]<ref>http://skepdic.com/occam.html</ref>}}

Occam's razor was formulated by William of Occam. In short, it states that the hypothesis that makes the least assumptions is the best answer for the phenomena. Note: Occam's razor does ''not'' say that the more simple a hypothesis, the better.<ref>http://skepdic.com/occam.html</ref>

Occam's razor was formulated by William of Occam. In short, it states that the hypothesis that makes the least assumptions is the best answer for the phenomena. Note that Occam's razor does ''not'' say that the more simple a hypothesis, the better.<ref>http://skepdic.com/occam.html</ref>

===Occam's duct tape===

===Occam's duct tape===

Also known as '''Occam's Krazy Glue''', '''Occam's Stapler'''<ref>http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/discussion.php?id=oovi8sdv</ref>, or '''The Law of Conservation of Detail'''<ref>http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheLawOfConservationOfDetail</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>[[Hypocrisy|Interestingly enough, this very statement can't be tested by experimentation]], [[Handwave|but whatever, y'know?]]</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|Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.|||Robert J. Hanlon<ref>https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robert_J._Hanlon</ref>}}

{{cquote|Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.|||Robert J. Hanlon<ref>https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robert_J._Hanlon</ref>}}

This one's self-explanatory.

This one is self-explanatory.

===Grice's razor===

===Grice's razor===

{{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 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===

==References==

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