Razor #8: Sagan’s Standard

Sagan’s Standard:

Extraordinary claims
require extraordinary evidence.

Thought:

Ordinary claims
require only ordinary evidence;
unless they were mistaken as ordinary.

 

(In philosophy, a razor is a principle or rule of thumb that allows one to eliminate (‘shave off’) unlikely explanations for a phenomenon, or avoid unnecessary actions.)

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