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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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