Ockham's Razor
By Jack Don McLovin - Multidiscplinarian -- Jack Has Been writing pages a day for the past 10 years under varying anonymous accounts, always drifting from place to place trying to gain popularity in a group, and start again, and repeat.
Ockham's Razor is often abbreviated as KISS, keep it simple stupid.
But really it is a self intact statement that the number of assumptions orders the complexity of the problem and the analysis. And clearly under some scenarios that complexity could be blown out of proportion. It's quite the art form to get answers out of tough questions, like in Engineering. We must make our assumptions known, and use that to define how complicated we are,
Ockham's Razor is the principle by which we only need as much complexity as is necessary to answer the problem, rather than being the fine grained comb to which you think it is. The simplest answer is the one with the least assumptions. So in actual fact if we assume more we can get more complex solutions to what would otherwise be simple problems.
Ockham's Razor is the best first assumption to make, the assumption of assuming in and of itself. So let's play with this assumption to see what else we can come up with.
Ockham's Gear:
Occam's Gear is a list beyond Occam's Razor, but let's clarify that first:
[1] Occam's Razor:
The theory with the least assumptions is the simplest. (NOT THE BEST NOR CORRECT ONE)
[2] Occam's Comb:
Complex explanations must be combed through, aligned and ordered like hair on your head, and remove all the ticks and nits disposed. Only then can we attempt to find truth.
[3] Occam's Heart:
The theories we love the most are the ones we spend the most time proving.
The theories we fear the most are the ones we spend the most time avoiding.
[4] Occam's Subconscious / Synchronicity:
The theories we avoid the most are the ones that are most worth exploring
[5] Occam's Eyes:
The theories we read about and listen to are the ones that we are more likely to achieve consensus upon as being correct.
[6] Occam's Wallet:
The theories that make the most money are the ones with the ability to present themselves for reading and listening.
[7+8] Occam's "Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is":
Eating up the theories that are most presented isn't actually a nutritious enterprise.
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Financing the theories that you talk about generally has the incentive of boosting your ego.
[9] Occam's Ballsack:
The theories that are most reproducible and modifiable and able to be bred with other theories are most likely to be talked about repeatedly.
[10+11] Occam's Cock:
The theories that get you hard will be sold to you like viagra, and you will buy it.
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The theories that make your tool longer (life extension) will be sponsored via [3+8] to you and you will never believe them.
[12] Occam's Arsehole:
The theories that seem like shit will drop to the floor and simply given away, and will later be reworked into fertilizer and sold to you for flowers via [6+3].
[13] Occam's Foot:
The theories that allow you to stand up for yourself as independent people will make you feel like going for a walk with them (pretty much a re-working of [3], except it involves wishful thinking that "transparency" is good in a militarized and fearful world).
