Do not revise Ockham's razor without necessity
Ockham’s razor asks that we not multiply entities beyond necessity. The razor is a powerful methodological tool, enabling us to articulate reasons for preferring one theory to another. There are those, however, who would modify the razor. Schaffer (2010: 313—our italics), for one, tells us that, ‘I...
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Wiley
2018
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| Online Access: | https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/35006/ |