Re: naked bipeds
Tom Clarke (clarke@longwood.cs.ucf.edu)
26 Oct 1995 15:42:07 -0400
pnich@globalone.net (Phil Nicholls) writes:
>The parsimony argument only holds IF THERE IS REASON TO BELIEVE THEY
>OCCURRED AT THE SAME TIME.
No. If you have such a reason, there is not need to appeal to parsimony
or Occam's razor as it is sometimes called. You invoke parsimony
when you are at a loss for data or lack another argument. (It gives
you something to write another paper about :-)
But since true-blue PAists don't discuss that for which there is no
evidence, it sounds like they would have no use for Occam's razor.
Tom Clarke
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