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  2. From: mje@pookie.pass.wayne.edu (Michael Edelman)
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  4. Subject: Re: Are all UFO debunkers rabid crackpots?
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  6. Date: 20 Jun 1996 17:59:20 GMT
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  15. Brian Zeiler (bdzeiler@students.wisc.edu) wrote:
  16.  
  17. : This is the interesting aspect, Occam's Razor.  The UFO debunkers think 
  18. : they understand Occam's Razor, but in reality, they haven't a clue as to 
  19. : what the heuristic means.  It really means that when several 
  20. : hypotheses can adequately explain a body of data, the simplest 
  21. : hypothesis which invokes the fewest implicit premises should be 
  22. : tested first before moving down the hierarchy of complexity.
  23.  
  24. Close, but no bananna, Bonzo.
  25.  
  26. Occam told us that we should not posit any unseen entities in formulating
  27. our hypotheses unless necessary. Of course, that's a subjective call; to
  28. you, invoking aliens to explain simple phenomena comes under the heading
  29. of "absolute necessity" ;-)
  30.  
  31. --mike
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