Edit_XYZ wrote:
Robert Maxwell wrote:
If I could get rid of any two "laws" frequently cited on the Internet, they would definitely be Godwin's Law, and yes, Occam's Fucking Razor. "This explanation is complex, therefore it is wrong!" It encourages the absolute worst varieties of intellectual laziness.
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I guess Karl Popper and many other philosophers of science, philosophers, scientists were 'intelectually lazy', eh?
And Occam's razor is "This explanation is MORE complex, therefore it is LIKELY wrong!" |
The problem is people who don't know what they're talking about falling back on mental "crutches" like those. "You mentioned Hitler/Nazis! You are automatically wrong!" "You gave a complex explanation! You are automatically wrong!" It's irritating as all hell.