{"id":23403,"date":"2019-06-26T02:15:30","date_gmt":"2019-06-25T18:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=23403"},"modified":"2019-07-01T01:22:21","modified_gmt":"2019-06-30T17:22:21","slug":"razor-9-rands-razor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2019\/06\/razor-9-rands-razor\/","title":{"rendered":"Razor #9: Rand&#8217;s Razor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-23404\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/rand.jpg?resize=675%2C900&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"675\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/rand.jpg?w=675&amp;ssl=1 675w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/rand.jpg?resize=72%2C96&amp;ssl=1 72w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/rand.jpg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Rand&#8217;s Razor:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Prior to philosophising,<br \/>\nthe philosopher needs to identify<br \/>\ntheir initial, irreducible, primary axioms.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thought:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Be as clear as you can in the first place<br \/>\nto become even clearer,<br \/>\nas clear as you can be.<\/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>Rand&#8217;s Razor: Prior to philosophising, the philosopher needs to identify their initial, irreducible, primary axioms. Thought: Be as clear as&#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":[790],"class_list":["post-23403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes","tag-principle","wpcat-44-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23403","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=23403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}