{"id":23366,"date":"2019-06-26T01:20:29","date_gmt":"2019-06-25T17:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=23366"},"modified":"2019-07-01T01:19:41","modified_gmt":"2019-06-30T17:19:41","slug":"razor-1-occams-razor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2019\/06\/razor-1-occams-razor\/","title":{"rendered":"Razor #1: Occam&#8217;s Razor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefreethinktank.com\/comic-the-razor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-23367\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/razor1.jpg?resize=600%2C347&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"347\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/razor1.jpg?w=1140&amp;ssl=1 1140w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/razor1.jpg?resize=96%2C56&amp;ssl=1 96w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/razor1.jpg?resize=300%2C174&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/razor1.jpg?resize=768%2C445&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/razor1.jpg?resize=1024%2C593&amp;ssl=1 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Occam&#8217;s Razor:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Simpler explanations are more likely to be correct;<br \/>\navoid unnecessary or improbable assumptions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thought:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Things are often simpler than imagined,<br \/>\nor more complex than imagined;<br \/>\nseldom exactly as imagined.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>(In philosophy, a razor is a principle or rule of thumb that allows one to eliminate (&#8216;shave off&#8217;) unlikely explanations for a phenomenon, or avoid unnecessary actions.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Occam&#8217;s Razor: Simpler explanations are more likely to be correct; avoid unnecessary or improbable assumptions. Thought: Things are often simpler&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-23366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes","tag-truth","wpcat-44-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}