A philosophical sibling, but more obtuse (as any philosophical assertion should be) is "Hume's Guillotine:" тАЬNo testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle unless that testimony be of such a kind that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavours to establish.тАЭ
PS: They are called "razors" because they are a method of simplifying the analytic process of determining the cause (Occam) or intent (Hanlon) of an action or event, much like a butcher would use a blade to separate the unwanted fat, which just gets in the way, from the delicious, and desired meat. The razor was probably selected by the idiom to imply that the idea was a "sharp" (i. e. effective) tool to use in one's analysis.
Just a "minority opinion" but meat cuts as Picanha roast, prime rib, ribeye steaks and even good pork chops do have a portion of fat that I find delicious. Even when many find it gross. There was a classic logic problem called "Who shaves the barber." And relates to Russell (Wikipedia) "The barber paradox is a puzzle derived from Russell's paradox. It was used by Bertrand Russell as an illustration of the paradox, though he attributes it to an unnamed person who suggested it to him. The puzzle shows that an apparently plausible scenario is logically impossible. Specifically, it describes a barber who is defined such that he both shaves himself and does not shave himself, which implies that no such barber exists."
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Very good. it means: "what can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence". It is also called Hitchens's Razor.
As opposed to Weingarten's Razor, which is an antique straight-edge.
A philosophical sibling, but more obtuse (as any philosophical assertion should be) is "Hume's Guillotine:" тАЬNo testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle unless that testimony be of such a kind that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavours to establish.тАЭ
Oooo, I love those Razors!
PS: They are called "razors" because they are a method of simplifying the analytic process of determining the cause (Occam) or intent (Hanlon) of an action or event, much like a butcher would use a blade to separate the unwanted fat, which just gets in the way, from the delicious, and desired meat. The razor was probably selected by the idiom to imply that the idea was a "sharp" (i. e. effective) tool to use in one's analysis.
Just a "minority opinion" but meat cuts as Picanha roast, prime rib, ribeye steaks and even good pork chops do have a portion of fat that I find delicious. Even when many find it gross. There was a classic logic problem called "Who shaves the barber." And relates to Russell (Wikipedia) "The barber paradox is a puzzle derived from Russell's paradox. It was used by Bertrand Russell as an illustration of the paradox, though he attributes it to an unnamed person who suggested it to him. The puzzle shows that an apparently plausible scenario is logically impossible. Specifically, it describes a barber who is defined such that he both shaves himself and does not shave himself, which implies that no such barber exists."
And if the barber is named Heisenberg then he might not know if he is shaving or being shaved.
Apparently, the solution to the barber paradox is a female barber.
Unless, of course, she is Brazilian.
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