{"id":23383,"date":"2019-06-26T01:43:14","date_gmt":"2019-06-25T17:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=23383"},"modified":"2019-07-01T01:21:00","modified_gmt":"2019-06-30T17:21:00","slug":"razor-4-humes-razor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2019\/06\/razor-4-humes-razor\/","title":{"rendered":"Razor #4: Hume&#8217;s Razor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-23384\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/cause.jpg?resize=600%2C450&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/cause.jpg?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/cause.jpg?resize=96%2C72&amp;ssl=1 96w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/cause.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hume&#8217;s Razor:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If the cause, assigned for any effect,<br \/>\nbe not sufficient to produce it,<br \/>\nwe must either reject that cause,<br \/>\nor add to it such qualities as will<br \/>\ngive it a just proportion to the effect.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thought:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A cause that is inadequate<br \/>\nto explain an effect<br \/>\nis not the cause,<br \/>\nor not the only cause,<br \/>\nor just a supporting condition.<\/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>Hume&#8217;s Razor: If the cause, assigned for any effect, be not sufficient to produce it, we must either reject that&#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":[747],"class_list":["post-23383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes","tag-cause-and-effect","wpcat-44-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23383","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=23383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}