From: Glenn Morton (glennmorton@entouch.net)
Date: Wed Jul 09 2003 - 21:09:00 EDT
Jim, you wrote:
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>I like the general line of thought here. I don't cotton to the MWH in part
because it fails
>to negotiate Occam's razor.
I would suggest that this is a misuse of Occam. Occam's razor doesn't mean
that the simplest universe is the most likely. It means 'given the fact at
hand, the simplest explanation of those facts is the most likely.'
And given the nature of this thread, it is interesting to look at Ockham's
most famous rendition of his razor. It is "A plurality must not be asserted
without necessity." A. C. Crombie, Medieval and Early Modern Science, Vo.
II, (New York: Anchor Books, 1959,P. 30 (It is nice to have my philosophy
books back.)
At this point in history, without a test having been done, one can't assert
the multiverse is true. But given evidence, MWH would not violate Ockham.
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