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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-08 05:52 PM Original message |
Atheists against Occam's Razor |
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Orrex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-08 06:07 PM Response to Original message |
1. i hadn't realized that Occam's Razor had anything to do with 'the most likely answer' |
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Donald Ian Rankin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-08 06:27 PM Response to Original message |
2. ...Chaos theory? |
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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-08 06:44 PM Response to Reply #2 |
3. But the end result is the true random sequence |
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Donald Ian Rankin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-08 06:54 PM Response to Reply #3 |
4. What are you talking about? |
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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-08 07:32 PM Response to Reply #4 |
5. Checking out at this point |
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rug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-08 09:31 PM Response to Reply #5 |
6. I didn't expect this. |
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Random_Australian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-08 11:08 PM Response to Reply #2 |
9. Huh, we here in physics have something we call "chaos theory", but we can afford to be |
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Random_Australian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-08-08 06:30 AM Response to Reply #9 |
10. Oops, had that wrong, but editing period had expired. |
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trotsky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-08 10:51 PM Response to Original message |
7. I'm not sure you understand what Occam's Razor really is. |
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Random_Australian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-08 11:02 PM Response to Original message |
8. The razor is incomplete? What the hell are you talking about? |
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skepticscott (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-08-08 11:02 PM Response to Original message |
11. Occam's Razor is often stated badly or misunderstood |
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Occam Bandage (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-08-08 11:18 PM Response to Original message |
12. In order for me to begin to formulate a counter-argument, |
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cosmik debris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-09-08 08:56 AM Response to Original message |
13. I also see Occam's Razor differently. |
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