{"id":23399,"date":"2019-06-26T02:07:06","date_gmt":"2019-06-25T18:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=23399"},"modified":"2019-07-01T01:22:01","modified_gmt":"2019-06-30T17:22:01","slug":"razor-8-sagans-standard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2019\/06\/razor-8-sagans-standard\/","title":{"rendered":"Razor #8: Sagan&#8217;s Standard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-23400\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/proof.png?resize=400%2C400&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/proof.png?w=400&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/proof.png?resize=96%2C96&amp;ssl=1 96w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/proof.png?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/proof.png?resize=38%2C38&amp;ssl=1 38w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/proof.png?resize=186%2C186&amp;ssl=1 186w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/proof.png?resize=184%2C184&amp;ssl=1 184w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sagan&#8217;s Standard:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Extraordinary claims<br \/>\nrequire extraordinary evidence.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thought:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ordinary claims<br \/>\nrequire only ordinary evidence;<br \/>\nunless they were mistaken as ordinary.<\/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>Sagan&#8217;s Standard: Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Thought: Ordinary claims require only ordinary evidence; unless they were mistaken as ordinary&#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-23399","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\/23399","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=23399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}