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Ockham’s Razor

Ockham’s Razor
plato.stanford.edu/entries/ockham



The English Scholastic William of Ockham (1287-1347) had stated that one should never assume more entities than necessary. This principle became known as Occam’s razor. Mach had adored it, for it epitomized the economy of thought that he had always sought.


Hahn, too embraced the principle, and put it to work in his essay. Superfluous, he said, are all the “shadowy half-beings” encumbering our brain, such as universals, empty space, empty time, substance, Thing-in-itself, the beyond, and of course gods and demons.

Away with them all” wrote Hans Hahn ~Page 150
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. . . . Hahn’s little pamphlet called “Superflous Entities: Occam’s Razor” was published in the same series in the Vienna Circle’s manifesto. He opened his pamphlet by referring variety of philosophical systems,” and he then separated philosophies that are turned toward the world from ones that are turned away from it. Epicurus and Hume, he said, are turned toward it, while Kant and Plato are turned away from it.

The English Scholastic William of Ockham (1287-1347) had stated that one should never assume more entities than necessary. This principle became known as Occam’s razor. Mach had adored it, for it epitomized the economy of thought that he had always sought.
Hahn, too embraced the principle, and put it to work in his essay. Superfluous, he said, are all the “shadowy half-beings” encumbering our brain, such as universals, empty space, empty time, substance, Thing-in-itself, the beyond, and of course gods and demons.

Away with them all” wrote Hans Hahn ~Page 150
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. . . William of Ockham (1285-1347) plato.stanford.edu/entries/ockham who developed such a far reaching empiricist approach that in retrospect he seems almost to be a forerunner of the most famous of all schools of British empiricist philosopher, the succession of Locke, Berkeley, and Hume. . . . . With Ockham the path of intellectually opened to a new approach to human knowledge, an approach we have since come to think of as scientific. The best-known single idea associated with his name is the principle of Ockham’s Razor en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam%27s_razor which has been accepted and used ever since. This states that two alternatives explanations for the same phenomena the more complicated is more likely to have something wrong with it, and therefore, other things being equal, the more simple is the more likely to be correct . . . Page 61 Excerpt: "The Story of Philosophy" - Bryan Magee - author

THE STORY OF PHILOSOPHY
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