Questions tagged [principle-of-parsimony]
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What kind of evidence would make theism/supernaturalism more theoretically virtuous than naturalism?
Graham Oppy is well-known for arguing that naturalism strikes the best balance between minimizing all of one's theoretical commitments and maximizing the explanation that one's theoretical commitments ...
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How does one judge the "complexity" of a given assumption (for the purpose of producing the “best explanation")?
In philosophy and science, we may wish to argue that some hypothesis 'explains' some facts we observe. In which case, we may lay out some assumptions for our hypothesis, in order to show how these ...
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