{"id":23387,"date":"2019-06-26T01:47:28","date_gmt":"2019-06-25T17:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=23387"},"modified":"2019-07-01T01:21:18","modified_gmt":"2019-06-30T17:21:18","slug":"razor-5-hitchens-razor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2019\/06\/razor-5-hitchens-razor\/","title":{"rendered":"Razor #5: Hitchens&#8217; Razor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-23388\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/assert.jpg?resize=630%2C630&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"630\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/assert.jpg?w=630&amp;ssl=1 630w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/assert.jpg?resize=96%2C96&amp;ssl=1 96w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/assert.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/assert.jpg?resize=38%2C38&amp;ssl=1 38w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/assert.jpg?resize=186%2C186&amp;ssl=1 186w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/assert.jpg?resize=184%2C184&amp;ssl=1 184w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nHitchens&#8217; Razor:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What can be asserted without evidence<br \/>\ncan be dismissed without evidence.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thought:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The burden to create faith<br \/>\nmust be borne by those<br \/>\nwho wish others to have faith.<\/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>Hitchens&#8217; Razor: What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence. Thought: The burden to create faith must&#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":[349,107],"class_list":["post-23387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes","tag-faith","tag-truth","wpcat-44-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23387","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=23387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}