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Do we have evidence that explanations that contain a minimal number of entities are true? [closed]
Does our universe require all our explanations to be the most minimal?
For example, entropy indicates that everything in our universe tends to a minimum.
So all explanations should be as minimal as ...
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Is physicalism the simplest worldview in terms of the complexity of its ontology? [closed]
Does physicalism enjoy the simplest ontology among all worldviews?
Are there alternative conceivable views of reality with a simpler ontology than physicalism's that can explain the same data? For ...
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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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