Re: Steve Wing, a scientist?

["ruth_weiner" <ruth_weiner@email.msn.com>]

from Webster:

Occam's razor: "... the simplest of competing theories [are] preferred to
the more complex ... [and] explanation of of unknown phenomena [should] be
sought first in terms of known quantities."

Ruth Weiner
ruth_weiner@msn.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Franz Schoenhofer <schoenho@via.at>
To: Multiple recipients of list <radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu>
Date: Friday, August 04, 2000 2:44 PM
Subject: Re: Steve Wing, a scientist?


>At 15:29 04.08.2000 -0500, you wrote:
>
>
>>Unfortunately the general public probably has never even heard of Occam's
>rasor, let alone applied it to trying to decide the validity of one claim
>versus another.
>
>Frank,
>
>Even if you would not regard me as the general public, I have never even
>heard of Occam's rasor. What is it?
>
>Franz
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